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Satellite imagery and official statements show the U.S.–Israeli Operation Epic Fury struck scores of military and regime targets across Iran — including damage in Tehran to sites linked to the supreme leader, naval bases, airfields, missile and tunnel facilities — and triggered heavy regional retaliation and substantial civilian casualties. UNESCO has verified war‑related damage to multiple Iranian cultural heritage sites, naming Golestan Palace in Tehran, Chehel Sotoun and the Masjed‑e Jāme mosque in Isfahan, and buildings near the Khorramabad Valley prehistoric caves, and said it had provided coordinates of protected sites and urged precautions to safeguard them.