Iran criticizes European response to Israeli strikes

Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei said Monday that Israel’s attacks on residential areas and nuclear sites were carried out with US support, and dismissed any talk of nuclear negotiations as “meaningless” under current conditions.

“Israel, with the support of the United States, attacked us,” Baghaei said during a press conference, accusing both countries of violating international norms and threatening regional peace.

Baghaei also rejected what he described as “ambiguous statements calling for Iran’s restraint,” saying they amount to hypocrisy.

Israel is using mobile phone tracking technology to carry out assassinations inside Iran, including of nuclear scientists in the latest strikes, the IRGC-affiliated Fars News Agency reported Monday.

"Israel uses mobile tracking to assassinate individuals in Iran. It previously killed Ismail Haniyeh the same way in Tehran,” the outlet said.

Fars added that even turning off mobile phones at meeting locations or residences can still reveal individuals’ whereabouts, and recommended using secure, anti-tracking phones.

The report follows a call by a Tehran lawmaker urging military and government officials to collect their own and their associates' mobile phones to prevent tracking.

Israel is preparing to carry out airstrikes on Tehran similar to those conducted in Beirut during past conflicts with Hezbollah, Al Arabiya reported Monday, citing an unnamed Israeli security source.

The report said the Israeli military is expected to issue evacuation warnings for residential areas in Tehran in the coming hours.

Two members of Iran's Revolutionary Guards were killed in an Israeli strike on Zanjan province in northwestern Iran on Sunday night, the official IRNA news agency reported.

IRNA identified the two as Commander Reza Najafi and Hassan Rasouli of the Ansar al-Mahdi Corps in Zanjan’s Ijrood district.

Eight drones launched from Iran were intercepted overnight by Israeli Navy missile ships, marking the first operational use of the Barak Magen air defense system, the Israeli military said on Monday.