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Israeli strikes on March 3 struck the building housing Iran’s Council of Experts in the holy city of Qom in an attempt to disrupt the process of appointing a new supreme leader, Axios reported, citing anIsraeli defense official.
The official told the American news website that the strike took place while votes were being counted. It isn’t clear how many of the council’s 88 members were in the building at the time, or the extent of the damage.
“We wanted to prevent them from picking a new supreme leader,” the official said.
The Council of Experts has the authority to appoint a new supreme leader. The clerics on the council vote on a short list of candidates being drafted by a smaller secret committee.
Former Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei was killed in the opening strikes of the ongoing American-Israeli war against Iran, along with dozens of senior leaders of the Islamic Republic.
The Israeli strikes were also reported by Tasnim news agency, which said that “American-Zionist criminals attacked the Assembly of Experts building in Qom”. Video footage showing the building severely damaged after the strikes were also released.
No session was being held in the building at the time of the strike, however, according to Fars news agency, which said that the final phase of selecting a new supreme leader was undergoing, but voting is being conducted remotely for security reasons.
Still, United States President Donald Trump said later in the day that the new strikes targeted another set of Iranian leaders, asserting that the impact appears “pretty substantial.”
“There was another hit today on the new leadership, and it looks like that was pretty substantial,” he said from the Oval Office. “So they’re getting hit very hard.”
Separately, another wave of strikes hit the Iranian capital, Tehran. The Israeli military said that the strikes hit “infrastructure and sites used by the regime for the production of weapons, with an emphasis on ballistic missile production sites.”
Violent strikes also hit Mehrabad Airport near the capital. The strikes wrecked the airport, and destroyed at least one civilian airliner.
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In the province of Isfahan, the Israeli military said, it struck dozens of Iranian ballistic missile launchers and missile storage sites.
The U.S. Central Command also released video footage showing some of its recent strikes on Iran. Most of the strikes hit ballistic missile launchers and drones.
Iran, from its side, responded with several waves of missile attacks on Israel, targeting mainly the center of the country. The Magen David Adom, Israel’s main ambulance service, said that at least 12 people were wounded, including one in moderate condition.
Tel Aviv District commander Haim Sargaroff told Hebrew media that impacts from ballistic missiles armed with cluster warheads were reported at multiple locations in the center of the country.
The U.S. and Israel have so far failed to neutralize the offensive capabilities of Iran, despite launching thousands of strikes.
The battle will heat up further in coming days, and a ceasefire seems out of discussion. The war will likely go on for weeks, if not months. Both sides appear to be prepared for this possibility.
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time to start hunting down every zio criminal, wherever they may be in the world.
when the hunter becomes the haunted hahahaha
shitty pedo clerics all deleted in one go
you behave like you do not belong where you live
everytime the pedophile islamic clerics votes for another supreme dictator, his lifebar is timed from years to hours.
you’re still wetting your bed, aren’t you ?
stop accepting us currency for any transaction would be the best way to attack american hegemony
easier said then done as these kikes have full control over our militaries and police forces and governments. as soon as only one person dous what it takes they have full power projection on this single individual and the impact is limited. but if a large groups in every western country would storm israeli institutions and embassies well that might have an impact. its time to stop bending over to them and do whatever it takes to remove them from our government and institutions.
the american/zionists cowards only succeeded in bringing into power even more hardliners.
murika is a dictatorship
democracy is a fraud, the ruling class still exists and the politicians serve the ruling class
i cannot imagine anyone still wanting to negotiate after this. it has come down to kill or be killed.
obviously the oligarchs in russia and china can’t bring themselves to do much of anything since they covet us currrency and us economic investment
can we get update on frontline and russian gains in ukraine? i dont give a flyin f about iran or syria or gaza i care about liberated slav soil.
with all due respect, i think your comment is very wrong. i didn’t give thumbs down but you probably deserve it. this is the same zionist mafia in syria and iran as in ukraine, in fact everywhere. this is not just one isolated war but a global one with the same evil people behind it. what happens in one area hugely affects everywhere else. and the 170ish school girls murdered by zios – you don’t give a f???? shame on you.
well sadly i care about our slav nations. i wish poland could be freed from eu but its impossible so at least save belarus n ukraine. and well i care just as much about killed ppl in iran as u care about killed ppl everyday in africa…..
not really much in other words “it happens all the time in africa, what different is dead people in iran than in sudan?” but they stopped publishing frontline for many days not on telegram either.
dump vs iran is ‘excitin’ and something different after reading about russias intentional incompetence for years and years
putin and his jews’ intentional incompetence, that is.
plenty of other articles on sf involving russian military operations in 404. that’s the whole idea of running this forum, if you haven’t noticed
just stay away from m-e articles if it turns you off.
well, israel it’s nothing more than a lot of zionist rabbis.
americunts all have plenty jew jizz dripping from anuz
vous parlez français, mademoiselle
devil worshippers have taken the bait. ball is overwhelmed by wisdom and technological superiority, iran will go in history as a liberator of middle east. they will loose, there is no doubt.
já fernão lopes vos achava um piadão.
extreme penetration of mullahs achieved!!!
heheheh
ó estupido, quem achas que vem a seguir?
don’t you have men struation today? nother f-15 bitten to duououst!
zio spys operate coordinated with all military assets attempt to keep iran from following its constitutional requirement of electing any government. injecting escaped isis militants seems possible. if iran gets destroyed by injected dystopia.
the leaders of iran’s axis of terror share the same fate.
this is what threatening israel gets you.
do you think you are safe from what is coming? i hope not. your leaders won’t let you stay at their bunkers and new homes in australia and new zealand. plans have been drawn. kiss your family goodbye might be your last time.
says bert 33, keyboard super hero
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they are hitting decoys. 😬
don’t count on it, the jews who run the west are very fortunate, none of their enemies are capible of learning
shocking that mere lowly office clerks were gathered to select iran’s supreme leader. were they used as sacrificial lambs?
shocking the retardediranians are still gathering together in groups, they learn at the same speed the russian oligarchy learns about war and trade
is it crowded, your underground shelter ?
natayahu and trump lies are obvious.if you wnt regime change why woulld you attack selecting body for new regime its about venezuella and iran oil control and arabs ,african and muslim supress and rule.
if the iranian officials are still gathering in groups they are worse then fools
israel is a mistake and jews will be leaving in droves soon
all the enemies of the “west” share a commonality, they are all very rigid and unable to mentally adapt to the “wests” aggression. they are dogmatic, ignoring reality, prefering ideas and concepts to results.
if the putin and xi thing trump will save them then their runing behind wrong bush.persians are smart their are fighters and will destroy both israel and usa.when the ded black peoples dry bones start rising then ll the white setlrs will fled from israel to britain s the ntive blacks will take over.
clerics, not “clerks”
iran should have had facilities 200m under the ground for their leadership. they have had enough time to prepare for this conflict and overcome strikes like these.
‘axios reported, citing an israeli defence official’
ditto. 💩