Senior Iranian figures killed in strikes on meeting locations, Israeli military official tells NBC News
Reporting from London
We knew that Israeli warplanes targeted the Iranian leadership in that initial wave of strikes but now have some more detail.
Israel targeted three sites where senior Iranian officials were gathering, an Israeli military official tells NBC News.
The official said “several senior figures essential to the management of the campaign and the regime’s governance were eliminated” but gave no details on whether Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei was among them.
Iran’s foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, told NBC News earlier that “as far as I know” both Iran’s supreme leader and president were still alive. He conceded that several Iranian commanders may have been killed but said “this is not a big problem.”
The Israeli military official said the U.S. and Israel had worked jointly “for thousands of hours” to develop a bank of targets in Iran.
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