1.52am Iran’s remaining leadership targeted in new Tehran strike: reports By Ellen Connolly
Israeli forces targeted a building in which Tehran’s Assembly of Experts was meeting to choose Iran’s next supreme leader, Israeli sources told media outlets.
The Israel Defence Force told news agencies the building was “flattened” in the attack.
Fox News claimed the strike occurred during “a meeting in Tehran where what’s left of the leadership was meeting to choose a new leader”, citing a senior Israeli official.
Iran has not confirmed the strikes or reported casualties, and independent verification remains unavailable as fighting continues across the region.
1.29am In pictures: Damage across Israel and Lebanon By
As the war intensifies, the damage is mounting across the Middle East.
A fire at a building that was hit by an Israeli airstrike in Dahiyeh, a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon on Tuesday. AP Smoke rises following an Israeli airstrike in Dahiyeh, Beirut’s southern suburbs, Lebanon on Tuesday, March 3. AP Officers from Israel’s Home Front Command inspect a damaged apartment building after an Iranian missile strike in Petah Tikva, Israel on Tuesday. AP A burning car damaged by falling missile fragments in Ramat Gan, Israel. Getty Images 12.55am UN calls for probe into strike on school in Iran By
The UN human rights office has urged what it called the forces behind a deadly attack on a girls’ school in Iran to investigate and share insights into the incident, without saying who it believed was responsible.
“This is absolutely horrific,” a UN spokesperson Ravina Shamdasani told a Geneva press briefing.
Shamdasani said photos from the scene captured “the essence of the destruction, despair and senselessness and cruelty of this conflict”.
Rescue workers and residents search through the rubble at a school in Minab, Iran. AP 12.30am US closes embassies
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