Tehran / Tel Aviv / Gulf Region — Iran has declared the launch of a massive “KHAMENEI REVENGE” operation, claiming its forces and allied militias have bombed 500 military positions linked to Israel and the United States across the Middle East, in what it calls the “largest coordinated retaliation in the history of the Resistance.”

In a televised address flanked by senior IRGC commanders, Iran’s acting Supreme Leader announced that ballistic missiles, cruise missiles and armed drones hit “airbases, intelligence hubs, logistics depots and command centers” from northern Israel to US installations in Iraq, Syria, Kuwait, Qatar and Bahrain. State TV looped dramatic footage of launches and computer‑generated impact maps, boasting that “the blood of Khamenei has been answered in kind.”

On the ground, the night sky told its own story. In Israel, sirens wailed from Haifa to the Negev as air defenses fired nonstop, with confirmed impacts near at least two key airfields and a major fuel facility. Across the Gulf, residents of Manama, Doha and Kuwait City reported distant fireballs over restricted zones hosting US troops, while base sources spoke of burning hangars and cratered runways. Casualty figures remain murky, but early estimates point to dozens killed and hundreds wounded on multiple fronts.

Washington and Jerusalem have condemned the barrage as a “regional act of war,” vowing a joint, crushing response and insisting many of the claimed 500 targets are “pure propaganda.” Yet even if Tehran’s numbers are inflated, analysts warn the message is unmistakable: Iran is signaling that any strike on its leadership will be repaid not with a single punch, but with a region‑wide avalanche — and that the era of limited, containable confrontation may be over.