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Israel has carried out air strikes targeting security forces across Iran on the fifth day of the US-Israeli assault, as the death toll surpassed 1,000 and Iran launched more counterattacks and warned of the destruction of military and economic infrastructure across the Middle East.<\/p>\n
Israeli attacks on Wednesday struck the country\u2019s capital Tehran, the holy city of Qom, western Iran and across Iran\u2019s central Isfahan province, according to the country\u2019s Tasnim news agency. The attacks also damaged residential units, the agency added.<\/p>\n list of 3 items<\/span>end of list<\/span><\/section>\n Israel said it hit buildings belonging to the Basij, a volunteer police paramilitary force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), as well as targeting buildings associated with Iran\u2019s internal security command.<\/p>\n The death toll since the US-Israeli assault began on Saturday has reached 1,045, Iranian state media reported.<\/p>\n Reporting from Tehran, Al Jazeera\u2019s Mohamed Vall said civilians are bearing the brunt of these attacks, and noted that the country is under fire from every direction.<\/p>\n \u201cThere is a continuous, sustained campaign across the country that is not sparing any region, city or area,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n \u201cBut we know 300 children and adolescents have been hospitalised \u2026 with more than 6,000 [people] wounded,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said \u2060damage due to attacks \u2060was also visible at two \u2060buildings near the \u2060Isfahan nuclear site, but \u200cthere has been no damage to facilities containing nuclear material \u2060and no \u2060risk of radiological release.<\/p>\n As explosions rocked the country, plans to hold a funeral ceremony for the country\u2019s Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei were postponed.<\/p>\n Iran\u2019s Tasnim news agency quoted an official citing logistical issues for the delay in the ceremony, which had been due to begin late on Wednesday and last for several days.<\/p>\n Funeral arrangements are ongoing and are expected to draw huge crowds, and, with them, the potential threat of US-Israeli attacks on a gathering of mass mourning. Some 10 million people attended Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini\u2019s funeral in 1989.<\/p>\n Khamenei was killed early on Saturday in the first wave of the United States and Israeli assault, which also killed other senior Iranian officials, including the country\u2019s Defence Minister Amir Nasirzadeh.<\/p>\n In response, Tehran has launched retaliatory missile and drone strikes against Israel and US military bases across the Gulf region.<\/p>\n While Israel, the US and Gulf countries have intercepted most of these missiles, some have struck military assets and civilian infrastructure. Debris from those intercepted has also fallen on some civilian areas.<\/p>\n Following the death of Khamenei, senior Iranian officials are working to elect his replacement, with potential candidates ranging from hardliners to reformers.<\/p>\n Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami, a senior Iranian religious leader who is a member of both the powerful Guardian Council and Assembly of Experts, said the country was close to choosing the late Khamenei\u2019s successor.<\/p>\n \u201cThe Supreme Leader \u2060will be identified \u2060at the closest opportunity. We are close \u2060to a conclusion; \u2060however, the \u2060situation in the country is a war situation,\u201d \u200cKhatami told state TV.<\/p>\n No official announcement has been made by local authorities, but Israeli and Western media outlets have reported that Mojtaba Khamenei, a hardline Muslim leader, is the frontrunner to become the new supreme leader of the 47-year-old Islamic Republic.<\/p>\n The Israeli defence minister threatened whoever Iran picks to be the country\u2019s next supreme leader.<\/p>\n \u201cEvery leader appointed by the Iranian terror regime to continue and lead the plan to destroy Israel, to threaten the United States and the free world and the countries of the region, and to suppress the Iranian people \u2013 will be a target for elimination,\u201d Israel Katz wrote on X.<\/p>\n US President Donald Trump, who has suggested the conflict could last several weeks, said on Wednesday that the leadership in Tehran is now in disarray.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re in a very strong position now, and their leadership is just rapidly going. Everybody that seems to want to be a leader, they end up dead,\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n As the US, Israel and Iran continue trading fire, the United Nations has said that between February 28 and March 1, an estimated 100,000 people fled Tehran due to the conflict.<\/p>\n On Wednesday, Iran\u2019s Foreign Minister Seyad Abbas Araghchi slammed Trump, saying he had \u201cbetrayed diplomacy and Americans who elected him\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen complex nuclear negotiations are treated like a real estate transaction, and when big lies cloud realities, unrealistic expectations can never be met,\u201d he said in a post on X.<\/p>\n \u201cThe outcome? Bombing the negotiation table out of spite.\u201d<\/p>\n Later on Wednesday, the US Senate voted against a resolution to curb President Trump\u2019s ability to wage war on Iraan.<\/p>\n But Trump will face increasing domestic scrutiny as the war on Iran continues, while Israel will likely enjoy more long-term public support, Paul Musgrave, an associate professor of government at Georgetown University in Qatar, told Al Jazeera.<\/p>\n \u201cThe political constraints on Donald Trump are greater than they appear,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Israel has carried out air strikes targeting security forces across Iran on the fifth day of the US-Israeli assault, as the death toll surpassed 1,000 and Iran launched more counterattacks and warned of the destruction of military and economic infrastructure across the Middle East. 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