Iranian President Injured As Israel Targets Underground Tehran Facility

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian was reportedly slightly injured during one of Israel’s covert attacks on Iran last month, according to Iranian state-linked media.

The Fars News Agency, closely aligned with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), reported that on June 16, six precision bombs targeted access and entry points of a top-secret underground bunker in western Tehran. At the time, President Pezeshkian was attending an emergency meeting of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council at the location.

According to the report, the blasts sealed off all six exits and disabled the facility’s ventilation and power systems. The president, along with other officials, escaped through an emergency shaft, suffering leg injuries in the process.

The Israeli government has not commented on the allegations, and the Fars report remains unverified by independent sources.

Social media videos during the 12-day war showed explosions pounding a mountainside in northwest Tehran. It is now believed that those strikes were part of a broader Israeli operation to cripple Iran’s leadership by targeting this classified command center.

Fars claims the operation represented a direct assassination attempt, though Israeli officials have pushed back. Last week, Pezeshkian publicly accused Israel of trying to kill him, an allegation Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant denied, stating that “regime change” was never a war objective.

The early days of the war saw devastating losses for Iran, including the deaths of several top IRGC and military commanders. Iranian officials admitted they were caught off guard, with decision-making reportedly stalled for nearly 24 hours.

Israeli sources have acknowledged that Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was also a target in the strikes. However, he reportedly evaded capture by being moved to a highly secure and isolated location, leaving Israeli intelligence in the dark about his exact whereabouts.

The incident has sparked growing concerns inside Iran over how Israel acquired such detailed intelligence—ranging from the movements of top officials to the locations of ultra-sensitive military and nuclear installations.

The strike on June 13 marked the beginning of Israel’s campaign, aimed at preventing Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. Tehran retaliated with aerial attacks of its own, while maintaining its claim that its uranium enrichment program is strictly for peaceful energy purposes.

The conflict escalated further on June 22 when U.S. Air Force and Navy forces launched coordinated missile and airstrikes on three Iranian nuclear facilities. President Donald Trump later declared the sites had been “obliterated,” although some U.S. intelligence analysts have expressed more cautious assessments.

The dramatic events have left the region on edge and raised questions about the depth of Israeli intelligence capabilities—and the vulnerability of Iran’s most protected institutions.