Trump says new strikes targeted more Iranian leaders

On March 4, US President Donald Trump said that new strikes targeted another set of Iranian leaders, asserting that the impact appears “pretty substantial.”

“There was another hit today on the new leadership, and it looks like that was pretty substantial,” he said from the Oval Office, per CNN.

“So they’re getting hit very hard.”

Trump did not specify who among Iran’s leadership was targeted or how many people the strikes had killed. The attack came after officials say an initial barrage of missiles over the weekend killed 49 Iranian officials, including Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

By Khagan Isayev