Overview
- News18 cites officials saying the Israeli Air Force struck a building in Qom that houses Iran’s Assembly of Experts.
- The Assembly of Experts is an 88-member clerical body empowered to select the country’s next supreme leader.
- Iran’s Tasnim news agency condemned the attack, referring to the perpetrators as “American-Zionist criminals.”
- Local outlets circulated footage showing heavy damage, which News18 says it has not independently verified.
- The Times of Israel also reported the council’s building was among targets in the latest strikes days after Khamenei’s reported death.