US-Israeli Strikes Bomb 60+ Iranian Sites, Assassinate Khamenei

US and Israeli forces launched more than 500 fighter and bomber sorties, striking over 60 Iranian targets across ten provinces.

“United States President Donald Trump warned Iran on Wednesday that he would bomb the country “back to the stone ages””

Al Jazeera

Israel targeted the Natanz enrichment facility and prominent scientists.

Al Jazeera

Trump threatened to bomb Iran back to the stone ages.

The strikes assassinated Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.

The Guardian reported the Iranian Red Crescent's toll of 201 dead and 747 injured.

The deadliest strike hit the Shajareh Tayyebeh girls' school in Minab, killing at least 153 children and staff.

The school bombing became a symbol of how the campaign extended to civilian targets.

CNBC

Iran retaliated by closing the Strait of Hormuz and launching missile strikes on Israel.

The closure disrupted 20% of global oil trade, triggering an economic crisis.

Global analysts condemned the campaign as an illegal war of aggression.

“Today, the 25th of Khordad, marks the third day of the Iran-Israel clashes”

Fararu

Janina Dill warned that carpet bombing civilian infrastructure would be illegal.

The Atlantic Council described the campaign as a high-risk gamble with weak legal justification.

Polling showed only 27% of Americans approved of the strikes.

Trump's stone ages rhetoric and the assassination of a sitting Supreme Leader marked a major escalation.

Analysts warned the strikes could trigger broader regional chaos.

France 24

The closure of the Strait of Hormuz threatened global economic disruption.

Al Jazeera emphasized the human cost by listing named civilian dead.