Death toll in Iran surpasses 1,000 as Israel-US strikes continue

Death toll in Iran surpasses 1,000 as Israel-US strikes continue

People mourn on Tuesday, the day of the funeral of the victims following a deadly strike on a school in Minab, Iran, on Saturday, the first day of the U.S.-Israeli attacks on Iran. (Amirhossein Khorgooei/ISNA/West Asia News Agency/Reuters)

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.

Israeli attacks on Wednesday struck the country’s capital Tehran, the holy city of Qom, western Iran and across Iran’s central Isfahan province, according to the country’s Tasnim news agency. The attacks also damaged residential units, the agency added.