Iranian military and state-aligned media report that retaliatory missile strikes have hit Tel Aviv, sharing images of smoke rising over the city following a week of heavy US and Israeli bombardment of Iran.
Iranian military and state-aligned media are reporting that Iranian missile strikes have targeted Tel Aviv, sending columns of smoke rising over the city. The reports emerge just days after an unprecedented wave of joint US and Israeli airstrikes severely damaged Iranian military infrastructure between March 9 and March 13.
The IRGC News Channel, a heavily anti-Israel outlet affiliated with Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, announced that columns of smoke rose in Tel Aviv, in the heart of occupied Palestine, as a result of Iranian missile attacks. An identical report was published by Khorasan Online, a regional Iranian state-aligned news outlet, which echoed the claim regarding the missile strikes.
Adding to the coverage, the regional conflict monitoring channel War News | Iran | Afghanistan published what it described as additional images of the smoke columns rising in Tel Aviv following the attacks. These retaliatory strikes occur amid surging regional tensions, the recent closure of the Strait of Hormuz, and threats by Iranian officials to target Middle Eastern energy infrastructure in response to the US and Israeli offensive.
The source messages consist of short, nearly identical text broadcasts across three channels, indicating a coordinated media push by Iranian state-aligned networks. The text frames the location as the heart of occupied Palestine, which has been preserved in the English digest per translation instructions.