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Iran says it targeted Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu amid escalating war, fate ‘unclear’: Report
According to a report by Fars news agency, the IRGC Public Relations Department said that it also attacked a location of the commander of the Israeli Air Force.
The Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) claimed on Monday that it attacked the office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu amid escalating war in the region.
The IRGC Public Relations Department said that, along with targeting the Israeli Prime Minister's office, the Iranian forces also attacked a location where the commander of the Israeli Air Force was present.
"The office of the criminal prime minister of the Zionist regime and the headquarters of the regime's air force commander were targeted," the Guards said in a statement carried by Fars news agency. The statement also said that Kheibar missiles were used in the attack.
The status of Netanyahu remains unclear, according to the report.
The war escalates further
Israel and the US have struck targets across Iran since Saturday. The war that began with Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's killing has engulfed the region, with explosions ringing in Dubai, Bahrain, Iraq and elsewhere, causing chaos with hundreds of flights cancelled and the strategic Strait of Hormuz all but paralysed.
Israel bombarded Lebanon on Monday following rocket fire from Hezbollah, several American warplanes crashed in Kuwait, with the US saying three of its jets were down and blaming Kuwait for the ‘friendly fire’.
Iran lashed out against the region with missiles, as the war with Israel and the United States expanded.
A Saudi oil refinery was on fire after it was targeted, and black smoke rose from the US embassy complex in Kuwait as Iran pressed on with attacks it launched in retaliation for the US and Israeli campaign that killed Khamenei.
In Cyprus, an Iranian drone hit a UK military base, but no casualties were reported.
