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The Iranian government says it is entitled to defend its country following Israel's airstrikes overnight.
Last night on military targets near Tehran, a series of strikes hit several locations, killing two Iranian soldiers.
But the authorities have played down the damage and the significance of the attacks, while Israel says it has achieved its aims.
Let's hear live now from Parham Gubadi from BBC Persian, who has been monitoring reports, reporting of all this in the Iranian media and engaging reaction among members of the public there.
Parham, what are people saying?
Are they giving clues as to how severe these strikes were?
So there are mixed reactions to the attack when the explosions took place almost at the same time last night.
It was midnight after midnight here local time, and many people messaged me personally and saying that they were scared because they woke up to the sounds of explosions in Tehran.
Later on, we realized that there were three waves of attacks.
So the first one, it was in western and southwestern Tehran.
We didn't see any images, no videos came out.
But after a few hours, when the second and the third waves unfolded, especially in the eastern part of Iran, videos started surfacing, showing Iranian air defense missile systems getting activated and, you know, engaging with projectiles in the skies of Tehran.