Tehran [Iran], March 23 (ANI): Iranian media reported Monday that a series of targeted airstrikes rocked Tehran, causing significant damage as powerful explosions echoed across the capital, Fars News Agency said.
Fars reported the strikes hit Districts 1, 4, 11, 13 and 21, focusing on expressways and producing loud blasts. The agency specified locations including District 13’s Pirouzi Street; District 21’s Garmdareh area; District 1’s Shahid Babaei Expressway and Shahid Langari Street; the end of Shahid Babaei Expressway and Heravi Square in District 4; and Hafez Street at the Jomhouri intersection in District 11, where “tremendous explosion sounds have been reported.”
در منطقه ۱۳، خیابان پیروزی، در منطقه ۲۱ محدوده گرمدره، در منطقه ۱ اتوبان شهید بابایی و خیابان شهید لنگری و همچنین در منطقه ۴ انتهای اتوبان شهید بابایی و محدوده میدان هروی، منطقه ۱۱ خیابان حافظ تقاطع جمهوری، صداهای مهیب انفجار گزارش شده است.
— خبرگزاری فارس (@FarsNews_Agency) March 23, 2026
Fars also reported a child was killed in Khorramabad. Al Jazeera reported casualties and extensive damage after an air attack hit Iran’s Urmia.
The incidents followed a fresh wave of strikes on Iranian targets by the Israeli Defence Forces on Monday. In a statement the IDF said, “IDF launches a wave of extensive strikes targeting infrastructure of the Iranian terror regime in Tehran.”
Separately, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said it executed the 75th wave of missile strikes in its retaliatory operation True Promise 4, targeting Israeli military sites and a key U.S. facility in Saudi Arabia, the Prince Sultan Air Base, Press TV reported.
As the U.S.-Israel–Iran conflict enters its fourth week, Iran’s Armed Forces headquarters warned it could close the Strait of Hormuz “indefinitely” if the United States threatened to strike Iranian energy infrastructure, CNN reported. Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf cautioned the U.S. against any misadventure and said that if Iranian energy sites were attacked, American financial entities that fund military, energy and critical regional infrastructure would be considered legitimate targets.
The IRGC reiterated that Israeli and U.S. forces are under “constant surveillance” and warned that concealing military assets in civilian areas would not provide protection, saying “no hiding place or defensive measure will shield the aggressors from accountability,” and signaled intent to continue its operations.
The broader confrontation, which began in late February, has seen repeated exchanges of strikes, raising fears of wider regional escalation and potential disruptions to global energy supplies and security in West Asia. (ANI)
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