Iranian sources say that Ali Khamenei’s son and expected successor, Mojtaba Khamenei, was also killed in yesterday’s Israeli-US airstrikes on Tehran.

The United Arab Emirates warns that it will not sit idly by while Iran continues to attack its cities.

Iranian state media confirms that Israeli-US airstrikes killed the Islamic Republic’s:

• Minister of Defense
• Military Chief of Staff
• Commander of the IRGC
• Special military advisor to the Supreme Leader

Israeli Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon in an address to the Security Council:

“We are stopping extremism before it becomes unstoppable. We will ensure that no radical regime armed with nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles can threaten our people or the entire world.”

In a social media post following the emergency session, Danon wrote:

“To the soldiers of the IDF, our boys and girls, my daughter, my son, you stand like lions defending our people. We salute you.

“An entire nation stands behind you.”

Image: Screen capture, Israeli Mission to the United Nations

Incredible scene of Jews and Iranians celebrating together last night in Golders Green, London.

Iran has now also attacked Oman with a drone strike on one of its ports.

Oman mediated the recent US-Iran talks.

IDF Spokesman:

The Israeli Air Force, guided by IDF intelligence, has begun a wave of strikes against targets belonging to the Iranian terror regime in Tehran.

Over the past day, the Israeli Air force conducted large-scale strikes in order to establish aerial superiority and to pave the path to Tehran.

The red flag of vengeance has been raised in the Iranian holy city of Qom.

Soon to be replaced by a white flag 😏

Official IDF announcement on the demise of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.

“Roaring Lion” met Queen Esther — and the map hasn’t changed

Iran’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei is dead, and the ideological center of Tehran’s regime has taken a direct hit. In the very season when Megillat Esther is read worldwide, the story of Persia’s extermination plot echoes into modern Iran—with a jarring reminder of V’nahafoch Hu: the tables can turn.

In connecting this moment to the Esther narrative, we learn that it is:

• not mythology, but pattern—threat, courage, reversal;

• not passive “miracles,” but initiative, intelligence, and resolve; and

• a sober warning: regimes built on annihilation eventually collide with consequences.

Make no mistake: the days in which we find ourselves are no less biblical than those we are now reading about in the Book of Esther.

If you’ve ever wondered why Purim still matters in 2026—this is why.

Read the full reflection here

IDF footage of strikes on the headquarters of regime forces in the heart of Tehran.

Defense officials say Iran also fired missiles at Cyprus, but they fell short and landed in the sea.

Israel has achieved aerial supremacy over Western Iran and is now securing the airspace over Tehran.

In the first day of Operation Roaring Lion, the Israeli Air Force eliminated 40 senior Iranian commanders - a historic strike made possible by unprecedented intelligence efforts.

The IDF has also dismantled the majority of the aerial defense systems in western and central Iran and is paving the way towards establishing aerial superiority over the skies of Tehran.

Iran attacked an oil tanker flying under the flag of Palau in the Strait of Hormuz.