US‑Israeli strikes on Iran continue despite Trump’s peace talk claims

US-Israeli strikes have hit several cities across Iran with no sign of de-escalation, even as US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that Washington was in talks with Tehran to end the war.

Huge explosions were reported overnight in the Iranian capital, Tehran, while attacks also targeted the cities of Tabriz, Isfahan, and Karaj. Iranian media reported on Tuesday that Israeli-US strikes hit two gas facilities and a pipeline, hours after Trump postponed planned attacks on power infrastructure.

“As part of the ongoing attacks carried out by the Zionist and American enemy, the gas administration building and the gas pressure regulation station on Kaveh Street in Isfahan were targeted,” said the Fars news agency.

The facilities in central Iran were “partially damaged,” added Fars, which was Iran’s only news outlet to report the incident. It said an attack also hit the gas pipeline of the Khorramshahr power plant, in the country’s southwest.

“A projectile hit the area outside the Khorramshahr gas pipeline processing station,” Fars reported, quoting the governor of the city bordering Iraq.

The Israeli army said it “completed a wave of extensive strikes targeting production sites” in Iran, without providing information on the locations or types of sites it targeted. It also said that overnight air strikes had struck ballistic missile storage facilities and various government buildings in Iran, including two IRGC intelligence headquarters and one of Iran’s Intelligence Ministry in Tehran. It claimed that weapon storage sites and air defence systems were among 50 targets that were hit.

Iranian media reported that a leading scholar and professor at a science university in Tehran was killed alongside his two children in an attack on his residence north of the capital. Iran’s English-language news channel Press TV identified the victim as Saeed Shamaghdari, who taught at the engineering department of the Iran University of Science and Technology.

Israel had previously attacked several Iranian academics, whom it accused of having links to the development of Iranian weapons.

The head of Iran’s emergency service, Jafar Miadfar, said 208 children were killed since the war began on February 28. Among them, 168 were from the US missile strikes on the girls’ school in Minab city at the start of the war. Rights groups say the Minab attack should be investigated as a war crime. More than 1,500 civilians have been killed across the country so far, according to the Iranian government.

Amid ongoing strikes, Iran named Mohammad Bagher Zolghadr as the new secretary of the Supreme National Security Council, replacing Ali Larijani, who was assassinated last week. Larijani was the highest-ranking Iranian official killed in US-Israeli attacks on Iran since former Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was assassinated on the first day of the war.