The Israeli army orders the evacuation of Tehran residents

The Israeli army ordered residents of a district in Tehran where government ministries and foreign embassies are located to evacuate on Monday ahead of a new wave of airstrikes on the Iranian capital.

In the coming hours, the (Israeli miliary) will operate in the area, as it has in recent days throughout Tehran, to strike military infrastructure of the Iranian regime, the military said in a post on X in Persian, indicating a part of Tehran’s District 3 on a map and telling citizens to evacuate the marked area for safety.

In the coming hours, the IDF (army) will operate in the region to attack military structures of the Iranian regime, as it has done across Tehran in recent days, the army said.

Your presence in this area puts your life in danger, it warned.

The evacuation order is the first by Tehran residents since Israel and Iran exchanged attacks on Friday, their worst ever confrontation.

The order comes after Iran launched missiles at Israeli cities Monday after Israeli strikes deep inside the Islamic Republic, raising Israel’s death toll by 11 on day four of an escalating air war.

The Israeli military said Monday it had destroyed 120 missile launchers — one third of Iran’s total.

In a televised address, Iranian armed forces spokesman Colonel Reza Sayyad vowed a devastating response to Israeli attacks.

Leave the occupied territories (Israel) because they will certainly no longer be habitable in the future, he said, adding shelters would not guarantee security.

Addressing Iran’s parliament, President Masoud Pezeshkian urged citizens to stand strong against this genocidal criminal aggression with unity and coherence.

Regional tensions have escalated since Friday, when Israel launched coordinated airstrikes on multiple sites across Iran, including military and nuclear facilities, prompting Tehran to launch retaliatory strikes.

Israeli authorities said that at least 24 people have been killed and hundreds injured in Iranian missile attacks since Friday.

Iran, for its part, said that at least 224 people have been killed and over 1,000 others wounded in the Israeli assault.