Israel‘s air force destroyed at least two rare Iranian F-14 Tomcats in a strike on Tehran International Airport on Monday, footage published by Israel showed. One of the central goals of Israel’s air campaign against Iran is to establish air supremacy over the country,

Israel says it first bombed Iran to stop it from being able to produce nuclear weapons and the “existential threat” they would represent.

Later Monday, Trump posted on his social media site an ominous message calling for the immediate evacuation of Tehran, Iran’s capital. He made the post while in Canada attending the G7 summit.

Israel’s military said it hit command centers of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, while Iranian strikes overnight killed several people.

Smoke and flames filled the sky over Tehran as Israel struck oil and gas facilities in the Iranian capital and targeted more nuclear facilities during attacks that carried on into Sunday after starting two days earlier.

Salami was killed in the first Israeli strikes, along with other key commanders. Although Iran replaced the commanders quickly, it took hours for it to get its ballistic missiles ready for launch. Over the last four days, Iran has much of its missile arsenal and the launchers needed to fire them.

Tensions between Israel and Iran have reached a boiling point as Iranian missiles struck Tel Aviv and Haifa early Monday, killing at least eight civilians and injuring over 100 others. In response, Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz warned that residents of Tehran would "pay the price,

Jonathan Conricus, a former IDF spokesperson, says Iran is "the weakest that I've ever seen it" after Israel's launch of Operation Rising Lion.