Israeli fighter jets carried out a major airstrike early Friday that destroyed the secret underground bunker of Iran’s slain Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Tehran, just days after he was killed before he could reach the heavily fortified hideout.

About 50 warplanes took part in the operation, dropping approximately 100 bombs on the underground complex in a series of massive explosions. The compound had previously been the site where Khamenei and dozens of senior officials were killed in an earlier strike last Saturday.

According to the Israel Defense Forces, the sprawling bunker — which reportedly stretched beneath several city blocks — continued to be used by high-ranking Iranian officials even after Khamenei’s death.

Video released by the Israeli military shows the moment the facility, described by officials as “one of the Iranian leadership’s most important military command centers,” was completely destroyed during the attack.

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🎥 WATCH: ~50 Israeli Air Force fighter jets dismantled Ali Khamenei’s underground military bunker beneath the Iranian regime’s leadership compound in Tehran. pic.twitter.com/Nw0tvvQMRX

— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) March 6, 2026

“The underground bunker was built beneath the compound and was a secure emergency asset for managing the war by the leader, who was eliminated before he managed to use it,” the military said, according to the Times of Israel.

Officials said the installation was located directly beneath Khamenei’s tightly guarded headquarters and included multiple entrances along with meeting rooms used by senior members of Iran’s leadership.

The compound had already been targeted at the start of the conflict, when Israeli aircraft launched the opening strike of the war — known as “Operation Epic Fury” — roughly a week earlier.

During that initial attack, Israel fired a powerful ballistic missile that reduced Khamenei’s headquarters to rubble, killing the Iranian leader along with dozens of officials and several members of his family.

Before the strike that killed him, Khamenei was believed to have been spending much of his time in the deep underground facility as protection from possible attacks.

The destruction of the bunker comes as Israel and the United States continued a series of coordinated strikes across Iran on Friday, targeting military installations, senior leadership figures and elements of the country’s nuclear program.

Iran has responded by launching missiles and drones toward Israel and several Gulf nations, including Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Bahrain — countries that host American military bases.

{Matzav.com}