Iranian media reports new US-Israeli strikes on civilian areas, with casualties in multiple cities as regional conflict intensifies.
TEHRAN: Iranian media reported on Saturday that overnight US-Israeli strikes hit multiple residential and civilian areas, killing more than a dozen people.
The attacks mark a further escalation in the regional conflict that began last month.
Strikes on residential areas in Borujerd killed seven people and wounded 36 others, the Fars news agency quoted provincial official Ghodratollah Valadi as saying.
Similar attacks on the northwestern city of Zanjan killed at least five people and wounded seven, according to ISNA, which cited the city’s deputy governor Ali Sadeghi.
Blasts also rocked the Iranian capital overnight, damaging the University of Science and Technology in Tehran’s northeast.
Local media reported the university strikes caused damage to buildings but no casualties.
On Saturday, rescuers from the Iranian Red Crescent were pulling bodies from rubble in the western city of Kermanshah.
Local media reported at least 13 people were killed there in separate attacks the day before.
AFP has not been able to access sites outside the Iranian capital or independently verify the casualty figures.
Journalists in Tehran, however, have reported damage to multiple residential buildings and other civilian infrastructure.
Israel and the United States launched strikes on Iran on February 28, killing the Islamic republic’s supreme leader and sparking a wider war.
Iran has yet to provide an overall death toll from the ongoing conflict.
The latest official tally of over 1,200 was released by the health ministry on March 8, a figure that also could not be independently verified.