IRAN is lashing out with a bloody last-ditch blitz to save its regime after Donald Trump warned he will not stop his attack until it is obliterated.
Missiles, submarines, boats and sea mines have all been kicked into action as reels from the .
Explosion in Tel Aviv, Israel, as Iran launches retaliation strikesCredit: Alamy
An Iranian Shahed drone falls from the sky after being intercepted in KuwaitCredit: X/@Osint613
Khamenei was killed after his compound was blitzed during US and Israeli strikesCredit: Airbus
Trump has until he has cut the head off the snake of the Islamic Republic’s regime after .
Major General Jack Keane, Washington Institute for the Study of War director, has told The Sun that air strikes on will continue for “weeks” until “the IRGC’s entire infrastructure is taken out”.
He said: “We have deliberate and methodical plans to strip away the IRGC.
“I’m not just talking about the leaders, I’m talking about the whole infrastructure that supports it, the technology that supports them.
“We’re talking about everybody in the system.”
The US president unleashed his wrath early on Saturday after repeated talks over the rogue nation’s nuclear empire failed to hit a breakthrough.
With the help of Israel, ordered his military to bombard Iran in a mission – dubbed Epic Fury – to take down the regime.
Tehran has now been thrown into turmoil, as Khamenei’s surviving stooges desperately try to cling to diminishing power while grappling with external attacks and internal political uncertainty.
New terror chiefs are also vaulting into vacated positions in – and pressing on relentlessly with further waves of lethal attacks.
It has put the Middle East on the precipice of all-out war, threatening to spiral – and even draw in , and terrorist factions.
US Special Forces Colonel Ron McCammon, who fought in Afghanistan and other parts of Central Asia, told The Sun that the IRGC “is prepared for martyrdom” with a strategy based “entirely on terror”.
Despite Trump’s warning not to retaliate, Iran discharged countless indiscriminate missile and drone strikes against nearby Gulf countries and Israel within hours.
Refusing to back down although largely decimated by Trump’s continuing attacks, Iran’s remaining leaders are in the midst of a frenzied attempt to save its regime.
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Missile launchers and storage bunkers in Iran survived the full day of intense US and Israeli air strikes – which have concentrated on decapitating Iran’s top leadership.
Iran’s defiant president Masoud Pexeshkian today insisted Tehran’s “bloodshed and revenge” is its “legitimate right and duty” – which he vowed to fulfil.
A massive volley of ballistic missiles streaked out of northwest Iran on midnight Saturday, hitting the centre of Israeli capital Tel Aviv and Dubai’s airport.
Merciless terror bosses are now deploying mini submarines, missiles, boats and sea mines to block the Straits of Hormuz.
It means as well as sparking death and destruction, Iran could also wreak havoc for the oil industry as some 20 per cent of the world’s oil passes through the strait.
Major international banks are warning that oil prices could double.
A building that was damaged by an Iranian drone attack in BahrainCredit: Reuters
Civillians flee down a busy street after a missile explosion rocks QatarCredit: Supplied
Although the US aircraft carrier and a dozen missile destroyers are stationed around the strategic waterway, the threat has scared surrounding states to suspend oil shipments.
Fresh shipping data today shows at least 150 tankers including crude and liquefied natural gas vessels dropped anchor in open Gulf waters beyond the strait.
Dozens more were stationary on the other side of the chokepoint.
It comes as more than 100 missiles and suicide drones have hit Qatar over the weekend and scores of others have exploded in the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait and Iraq.
Flames engulfed Abu Dhabi’s tallest high-rise after it was hit by Iran’s vicious Shahed kamikaze drones.
Other vulnerable infrastructure has also been struck and there is panic that desalination plants providing the main source of local drinking water are on the target list.
The Pentagon has been airtight about the extent of damage and casualties at US military bases, which have taken multiple missile strikes.
A radar installation is reported disabled at the Al Udeid air base in Qatar and the US 5th Fleet’s headquarters has been repeatedly struck in Bahrain.
But Iran’s bullying tactics on Gulf neighbours could backfire.
Fence-straddling Saudi Arabia declared that it would join forces with America and Israel against Iran after missiles struck its capital, Riyad.
But the IRGC calculates that if it can continue causing mayhem with its missile arsenal and massive quantities of Shahed 136 and more advanced 139 loitering drones, its terror proxies will join in with guerrilla.
“The Iranian military is very good at producing drones” general Keane said.
“That’s what they using against US bases. It’s a challenge.”
It could see Lebanon’s Hezbollah, Yemen’s Houthis and Iraq’s Al Sadr launch terror attacks against Israel, US bases and embassies and nervous Arab governments.
Thick black smoke billows into the air above the Jebel Ali port after being struck by debris from an Iranian intercepted missile, in DubaiCredit: EPA
The turmoil comes in the aftermath of Ali Khamenei’s deathCredit: AFP
Donald Trump oversees operation Epic Fury with (L-R) Central Intelligence Agency Director John Ratcliffe, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles at Mar-a-LagoaCredit: Getty
The IRGC’s ultra-secret unit 840, which controls terrorist sleeper cells around the world, operates from headquarters in Houthi-controlled Yemen.
British prime minister Keir Starmer said on Saturday that 20 terror plots uncovered in the UK over the past year are traced to Iranian-linked groups.
The FBI says it’s on “maximum alert” over terror threats in the US.
It comes as protests organised by a network of militant groups previously linked to violent pro-Hamas riots erupted in New York and other cities the moment air strikes were launched on Iran.
IRGC agents plotted with Mexican drug cartels to stage truck bombings in the US some years ago and recently tried to assassinate the Israeli ambassador in Mexico City.
Hezbollah cells are active throughout Latin America where terrorists involved in the massive 1992 bombing of a Jewish community in Argentina are currently based in Venezuela, according to US intelligence reports.
But most importantly, IRGC could also receive crucial backing from Russia and China – which have much to lose from a collapse of the regime.
Iran has been the main supplier of killer drones to Russia for its war on Ukraine and China receives 90 per cent of its oil.
Chinese military transports have recently been landing in Teheran, delivering parts and components to upgrade IRGC air defence systems with newly developed radar technology to detect stealth aircraft.
Just last week, Iran is understood to have reached a deal with China to acquire long-range CM-302 anti-ship cruise missiles designed to skim sea surfaces below radar detection.
While the US has disabled much of Iran’s Russian S-300 long range air defence batteries, Moscow is sneaking in hundreds of its newest Manportable Verba SAMs.
These are equipped with three spectral infra-red and ultraviolet seekers capable of outsmarting countermeasures of US aircraft.
Russian has also been flying in Mi-28 “Havoc” helicopter gunships bristling with rockets and 30mm autocannons that could instantly slaughter crowds of anti-regime protestors.
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