Iranian state-aligned media outlets claim that missiles successfully bypassed air defenses and struck within meters of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office in Jerusalem.
Following a massive regional escalation on March 16 that included widespread Israeli and U.S. military strikes on Iranian territory, Iranian media channels are claiming successful retaliatory missile strikes in the heart of Jerusalem.
According to the IRGC News Channel, an outlet closely aligned with Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Iranian missiles today hit positions in occupied Jerusalem at a distance of a few meters from the office of Netanyahu, prime minister of the Zionist regime. The channel further claims that some Zionist media reported "only one Iranian missile was intercepted," while the remaining projectiles successfully bypassed the air defenses of the Zionist regime and struck their intended targets.
Khabari Plus, an Iranian news channel, echoed these reports, stating that Iranian missiles hit positions in Jerusalem just a few meters from the Israeli Prime Minister's office. Together with identical reports from the Akharin Khabar channel, the claims quickly amassed nearly 13,000 views on the Telegram platform.
These purported strikes take place amidst intense regional warfare. On the night of March 16, the Israel Defense Forces launched a massive wave of attacks on over 200 military targets in Iran, while U.S. CENTCOM forces destroyed dozens of targets on Kharg Island. Iran's ongoing retaliatory waves have included hundreds of strikes across the region, including the deployment of cluster bombs on Tel Aviv and attacks against U.S. installations in Erbil, Bahrain, and Saudi Arabia.
The source channels are strongly aligned with the Iranian military apparatus and display clear state-sponsored bias, explicitly utilizing terms like 'Zionist regime' and 'occupied Jerusalem' to frame their narrative of a successful breach of Israeli air defenses. The Iranian channels attribute corroboration of the air defense failure to unnamed Israeli media without providing specific citations.