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Messages sent by residents to Iran International described explosions, reported strikes and military deployments across several cities in Iran on Sunday.

In Shahin Shahr near Isfahan, residents reported multiple explosions in the morning, including near a Revolutionary Guards center, the governor’s office and other locations.

Another message said a police station at the Attar–Modarres intersection and a Guards base were targeted around 9:15 a.m.

Residents also reported attacks on security and military facilities in other parts of Isfahan province. Messages described strikes on a police command building near City Center in Isfahan and on a police command office on Tohid Street.

Other reported targets included the Guards’ Saheb al-Zaman headquarters on Sofeh Boulevard opposite Al-Zahra hospital, a Basij intelligence district, a command headquarters and the Imam Ali barracks in Najafabad.

In nearby Fuladshahr, residents said Guards forces that had entered the Hijab stadium on Saturday were targeted.

Elsewhere, residents reported heavy bombing of army air and naval bases and other military facilities in Bushehr.

In Qom, one message said the Safaieh area was struck around 8 a.m.

Residents in Bandar Abbas reported hearing explosions since the morning and said military facilities at the western edge of the city had been hit by missiles.

Separate messages described security deployments in other cities. In Qazvin, police forces were reported stationed at the 22 Bahman stadium near a health center and a girls’ technical school.

In Tehran’s Sa’adat Abad district, residents said Imam Sadeq university and a nearby high school had been turned into military positions with checkpoints set up around them.

In Tabriz, residents reported government forces stationed at Imam Ali primary school in the Roshdiyeh area.

Major General Abdolrahim Abdollahi, commander of Iran’s Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters, said Iran would continue the war until the enemy is forced into regret and brought down.

He said Iran’s weapons were now more advanced than before and had high accuracy and resilience.

Abdollahi also said the United States and Israel had repeatedly claimed to know the size of Iran’s missile arsenal, adding: “We tell them to count Iran’s missiles on the battlefield.”

At least four people were killed when an Israeli strike hit an apartment in the Ramada hotel building in central Beirut early on Sunday, with Israel saying the attack targeted Iranian commanders operating in the Lebanese capital.

The Israeli military said it was targeting commanders from the Revolutionary Guards’ Quds Force who it said were operating in Lebanon to plan attacks against Israel while also coordinating with the IRGC in Iran.

“The commanders of the Quds Force's Lebanon Corps operated to advance terror attacks against the state of Israel and its civilians, while operating simultaneously for the IRGC in Iran,” the military said in a statement.

Later in the day, sources cited by Saudi-owned Al Hadath said five Iranian members of the Lebanon branch of the Quds Force were assassinated in the strike.

The sources identified the dead as Majid Hosseini, the financial officer of the Lebanon branch of the Quds Force; Ali Biazaar, its intelligence officer; Hossein Ahmadlou, head of what they described as the branch’s “Zionist file”; and Ahmad Rasouli, head of the Intelligence Department in the Palestine Corps.

Lebanon’s health ministry said 10 people were injured in the strike in Beirut’s Raouche district. The attack hit a corner suite on the fourth floor of the hotel building, shattering windows and blackening the facade, according to Reuters.

US President Donald Trump said Britain was giving “serious thought” to sending two aircraft carriers to the Middle East, but made clear he did not believe Washington needed British help in the war with Iran.

“The United Kingdom, our once Great Ally, maybe the Greatest of them all, is finally giving serious thought to sending two aircraft carriers to the Middle East,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.

“That’s OK, Prime Minister Starmer, we don’t need them any longer – But we will remember. We don’t need people that join Wars after we’ve already won!”

Trump’s remarks came after Britain’s defense ministry said it was preparing the aircraft carrier Prince of Wales for possible deployment, although no final decision has been taken.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has defended his earlier refusal to allow US forces to use British bases for initial strikes on Iran, saying he wanted to ensure any action was legal and properly planned.

Responding to Trump’s comments, British Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper told Sky News: “The thing I’ve learned doing this job is that you have to focus on substance and not on social media posts.”

“We’re not going to do things in terms of the rhetoric or hyperbole. We’re going to do things on really practical, calm, steady decision making. Because I think that actually the British character more widely is to do things in a serious and steady way.”

Mohammad Jafar Montazeri, head of Iran’s Supreme Court, said the country has remained “firm and steadfast” despite the killing of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei a week ago.

Montazeri said Iran had been without a leader for days but insisted the system remained intact, saying the “spirit of the martyred imam is commanding the field.”

He also vowed retaliation for Khamenei’s death, saying Iran’s armed forces were determined to take revenge and warning that the United States would receive what he described as a harsh lesson.