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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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William Christou, with visuals by Lucy Swan, Ashley Kirk, Chris Watson, Heidi Wilson, Boglarka Kosztolanyi, Maheen Sadiq and Bryony Moore

A visual guide to the US-Israeli war on Iran and Tehran’s response

A plume of smoke rises after a strike in Tehran
A plume of smoke rises after a strike in Tehran on Sunday. Photograph: Vahid Salemi/AP

The US-Israeli war against Iran entered its second day on Sunday, as news of the assassination of the country’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, shook the Islamic Republic and the wider region.

Donald Trump announced Khamenei’s death while Israel claimed to have killed at least 40 senior Iranian commanders in the first day of attacks. Both countries continued to pound Iran, conducting hundreds of airstrikes across the country overnight and on Sunday.

Despite the apparent loss of a significant portion of its senior military and political leadership, Iran did not slow its retaliation on Sunday, bombing targets in the Gulf and unleashing waves of ballistic missiles towards Israel.

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