Israel bombs Iranian public television after ordering the evacuation of a Tehran district.

BarcelonaOn the fourth consecutive day of conflict, Israel bombed the headquarters of Iran's national television and radio station, known as IRIB, on Monday after the army issued an "urgent" evacuation order in Tehran's third district, where the public broadcaster's headquarters are located. "What you're hearing is the sound of the aggressor attacking the truth," said well-known Iranian presenter Sahar Emami live on air, as the television studio's roof partially collapsed and the sound of shattering glass could be heard. The station had to interrupt its programming, but resumed broadcasting a few minutes later.

Part of the building caught fire as a result of the explosion, leaving a large column of smoke visible throughout the city. Hasan Abedini, deputy director of Iran's state broadcasting company, reported that some workers were injured and said firefighters were trying to contain the blaze.

Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz confirmed the attack in a statement. "We will strike the Iranian dictator everywhere," the statement said, calling the Iranian network a source of "propaganda and incitement" that the minister had warned in a statement hours earlier. "Iranian propaganda" was "about to disappear." The Israeli military justified the strike by claiming that the Iranian military was using the state media outlet's headquarters in "military operations under civilian cover, using its own means and assets" and said that efforts had been made to "minimize damage [to civilians] as much as possible." Tel Aviv had issued evacuation orders in some areas of Tehran, similar to those it issued in parts of Gaza and Lebanon before attacking them. broadcast via X. It added: "Your presence in this area could endanger your life."

A hospital bombed

Television was not the only target of Israeli aircraft. Iranian government spokeswoman Fatemeh Mohajerani reported this morning that Israel had attacked the Farabi hospital in the city of Kermanshah, in the west of the country., and accused Tel Aviv of lying when it claimed it was "not targeting ordinary people." Several Iranian media outlets showed images from inside the destroyed medical facilities, showing that parts of the roof had collapsed due to the impact of an Israeli missile that reportedly hit the hospital's critical unit, according to the deputy governor of Kerman.

Since Friday and until Monday, the death toll from Israeli attacks on Iran stood at at least 224 dead and 1,277 wounded, according to the Iranian Ministry of Health, and 24 people died inside Israel, mostly on the outskirts of Tel Aviv.

Israeli authorities maintain that only seven of the 100 missiles fired by Iran during Monday night had landed in Israel. But one of them, for example, directly hit a bunker where two people were taking refuge, killing them, according to emergency services. And another projectile fell on an oil refinery in Haifa, where three people died of smoke inhalation.

This afternoon, Iran launched a second wave of ten projectiles against Israel, which Tel Aviv's air defenses were able to repel. The Israeli army reported through the X network that several missiles had been detected in the north of the country and recommended that the population continue to obey the authorities' instructions: "The defense is not hermetic, so we must continue to obey the orders of the Home Front Command."

Threatening rhetoric and attempts at negotiation

Although Iran has threatened Tel Aviv with launching "the largest and most intense attack in history on Israeli soil," according to Iranian state television, US media report that Iranian diplomacy is doing everything possible to end hostilities. Through radio stations in several Arab countries, Tehran has reportedly contacted US officials to let them know it is willing to sit down again at the negotiating table for a nuclear deal, provided Washington does not support Israel in the offensive.

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, who considers the air offensive against Israel to be self-defense, has urged Donald Trump to pressure his partner Benjamin Netanyahu. "If President Trump is sincere about diplomacy and is interested in stopping this war, the following steps are important," he said in a message to X. "Israel must stop its aggression, and if there is no complete cessation of military aggression against us, our responses will continue. A phone call from Washington is necessary to improve diplomacy."

For his part, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu asserts that he is making progress toward his stated goals in this conflict: eliminating the Islamic Republic's nuclear program and destroying its missiles. "We are on the path to victory," he said. But he is also fueling threatening rhetoric online with his desire to provoke regime change in Iran. Speaking to ABC News, he stated that he has not ruled out ousting Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and that killing him could "end the conflict."