Iranian state-affiliated and proxy channels are heavily promoting claims of successful retaliatory missile strikes hitting multiple Israeli regions, including Tel Aviv, Haifa, and the Galilee, reportedly causing significant damage and casualties.
Amidst an unprecedented wave of US and Israeli airstrikes targeting Iranian military and energy infrastructure, Iranian state-aligned and proxy media channels are heavily broadcasting what they claim is a massive and successful retaliatory missile barrage against Israel. Coming just days after the appointment of Mojtaba Khamenei as Iran's new Supreme Leader, the channels depict an overwhelming assault that successfully bypassed Israeli air defenses.
The IRGC-affiliated Sepah Pasdaran channel, which acts as a primary mouthpiece for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, announced the firing of Iran's third missile wave within the last hour, accompanied by the exclamation Allahu Akbar. The channel circulated footage claiming to show a massive explosion near occupied Haifa, asserting that an Iranian missile bypassed defense systems to strike the area.
Several channels reported significant impacts in northern Israel. Sepah Pasdaran claimed a chaotic situation at the strike zone in Jezreel, a claim echoed by the pro-regime breaking news channel Akhbar Fori, which also highlighted the missile impact in Jezreel. Further attributing Hebrew sources, Sepah Pasdaran reported that approximately 10 people were injured in the Galilee region due to direct missile or drone hits.
State-aligned media consistently used heavily charged terminology to frame the strikes: The pro-government channel Hamiyan Pezeshkian celebrated a direct hit and 10 wounded and killed in the occupied territories. Yemen's Houthi-affiliated proxy channel, Ansaroollah, shared footage of the moment an Iranian missile bypassed the air defenses of the Zionist enemy before making an impact.
All source messages originate from highly biased, pro-regime, IRGC-affiliated, or Axis of Resistance channels. Their terminology (e.g., 'occupied territories', 'Zionist enemy') has been retained without quotation marks as per strict translation fidelity instructions. The claims of casualties, the number of missile waves, and specific impact zones represent the Iranian state narrative and have not been cross-verified with independent or Israeli sources within this dataset. Fars News notably included imagery from a prior March 2 incident, suggesting a potential effort to aggregate visual evidence to amplify the perceived scale of the current retaliation.