IDF airstrikes targeted 'dozens' of sites connected to internal security forces.
Jon Haworth, Jack Moore, Nadine El-Bawab, David Brennan, Kevin Shalvey, Meredith Deliso, and Leah SarnoffPresident Donald Trump announced "major combat operations" against Iran on Saturday, with daytime strikes in the joint U.
S.-Israel attack targeting military and government sites, officials said. On Sunday, Iranian state television confirmed that Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was among those killed by airstrikes in Tehran on SaturdayIran is responding to the U.S.-Israeli operation with missile and drone attacks targeting Israel, regional U.S. bases and Gulf nations. American diplomatic facilities have also been attacked.At a briefing at the Pentagon on Wednesday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said "this is not a 'mission accomplished' situation," instead calling it "a reality check." Hegseth said that now that both Israel and the U.S. have achieved dominance over the skies of Iran, those operations will be ramped up, shifting from mainly missile strikes in the first days to bomb drops. "Flying over Tehran, flying over Iran, flying over their capital, flying over the IRGC, Iranian leaders looking up and seeing only us and Israeli air power every minute of every day, until we decide it's over and Iran will be able to do nothing about it," he said. "More bombers and more fighters are arriving just today, and now with complete control of the skies, we will be using 500-pound, 1,000-pound and 2,000-pound GPS and laser-guided precision gravity bombs, of which we have a nearly unlimited stockpile," Hegseth said.Hegseth said additional forces are arriving in the Middle East on Wednesday. CENTCOM on Tuesday night announced 50,000 troops are in the region.Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said at a briefing at the Pentagon on Wednesday, "We have only just begun." Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks during a press briefing at the Pentagon, Wednesday, March 4, 2026, in Washington. "It's very early and has President Trump has said we will take all the time we need to make sure that we succeed," he said. "We are only four days into this and the results have been incredible."186 students and teachers killed in Iran, education ministry says A total of 186 students and teachers have been killed and 114 others are injured from the U.S-Israeli attacks on different locations across Iran, according to the Iranian education ministry.Two Israeli sources briefed on the matter told ABC News on Wednesday that Israel had killed Rahman Makdem, the head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' special operations division who was alleged to have been behind the attempted assassination of President Donald Trump in 2024. The location of the killing was not immediately clear. Trump was informed of the operation by the Israelis, the sources said.
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