The Israeli military says it has destroyed an underground bunker beneath Iran’s leadership complex in Tehran that it claims was built for former supreme leader Ali Khamenei.
According to the Israel Defence Forces (IDF), around 50 fighter jets from the Israeli Air Force dropped roughly 100 bombs on the site early this morning. The military said the bunker lay beneath a large compound in the Iranian capital and stretched across several streets, with multiple entrances and rooms used for meetings by senior members of Iran’s leadership.
The IDF said the underground facility had been designed as a secure emergency command centre from which Khamenei could manage the war. However, it said the Iranian leader had already been killed in an Israeli strike on Saturday before he was able to use it.
Israeli officials also said the compound continued to be used by senior Iranian figures after Khamenei’s death.
The military said the strike followed years of intelligence gathering. Specialists from Unit 8200, responsible for signals intelligence, and Unit 9900, which focuses on visual intelligence, had mapped the underground complex in detail, enabling what the IDF described as a “precise” attack.
Israel says it has targeted locations within Tehran’s leadership complex several times during the conflict. In the opening strike of the war, the IDF said it killed Khamenei at his compound within the complex. Another attack on a nearby building reportedly killed eight senior Iranian officials.
Earlier this week, Israeli forces also said they had struck several sites in the area, including Iran’s presidential bureau and the headquarters of the country’s Supreme National Security Council.
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