Iranian media reports 13 dead in airstrike southwest of Tehran

An airstrike strikes a residential building in a city southwest of Iran’s capital, Tehran, killing at least 13 people, Iranian media reports.

The semiofficial Fars news agency and Nour News report the strike near Eslamshar.

It isn’t clear why the building was struck. Neither Israel nor the United States claimed the strikes this morning, but they came after US President Donald Trump issued a profanity-laced threat to Iran that it must reopen the Strait of Hormuz.

Separately, gas outages hit parts of Tehran after a strike on a university, Iran’s state broadcaster reports.

The attack “hit the Sharif University gas station and we are facing a temporary gas outage in the Sharif neighborhood,” state broadcaster IRIB quotes the head of Tehran’s District 9 neighbourhood as saying.

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