Missiles fired by the United States and Israel struck two schools in the town of Parand, southwest of Tehran, Iran’s Fars news agency reported on Thursday, according to Al Jazeera.
The attack comes six days after what Iranian authorities described as a US Israeli strike on a girls’ school in the southern city of Minab, which killed 165 schoolgirls and staff, most aged seven to 12, and wounded at least 95 others, Fars reported.
Iranian officials said the Minab strike coincided with the start of a broader US Israeli military campaign against Iran, which has since triggered exchanges of fire across the Middle East.
Iran’s military said on Thursday that it had launched a drone attack against a US military site in Kuwait.
The Iranian army also said it launched a drone attack on a US site in the Iraqi Kurdistan city of Erbil. “The headquarters of the American aggressor forces in Erbil, Iraq, was attacked by the army’s ground forces’ attack drones,” the army said in a statement broadcast by state TV.
Meanwhile, Iran’s state-run Foundation of Martyrs and Veterans Affairs has said that the death toll from US and Israeli strikes on the Islamic republic has risen to 1,230.
Azerbaijan warned on Thursday that it was preparing unspecified response measures after two Iranian drones flew across its border and injured four people in the Nakhchivan exclave, raising concern about further spillover of the conflict in the Middle East. Iran, however, denied targeting Azerbaija.
Separately, the UAE said one missile and six drones fell inside the country. The defence minister also said it had intercepted six ballistic missiles and 125 drones.
Russia on Thursday accused the United States and Israel of trying to drag Arab countries into a wider Middle East conflict by provoking Iran into striking targets across the region and said there was no sign Washington and Tel Aviv would let up.
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Thursday that four additional Typhoon fighter jets would be sent to Qatar as the conflict in the Middle East escalates, insisting that the UK has the right plan for defence.
Meanwhile, Israel said it carried out strikes on Beirut targeting Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah early Thursday, while Lebanese state media reported an Israeli drone strike killed a Hamas official.
There were no immediate reports of casualties.
On Wednesday, US Senate Republicans backed President Donald Trump’s military campaign against Iran on Wednesday, voting to block a bipartisan resolution aiming to stop the air war and require that any hostilities against Iran be authorised by Congress.
The Senate voted 53 to 47 not to advance the resolution, largely along party lines, with all but one Republican voting against the procedural motion and all but one Democrat supporting it.
Moreover, Trump in an interview with Axios said he wants to be involved in selection of Iran’s next leader and called Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s son an “unacceptable” potential pick.