India, March 2 -- Amid escalating tensions and chaos in the Middle East, the US Central Command announced on Monday that it destroyed the headquarters of Iran's powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), a strike that it described as cutting off the "head of the snake".

The video posted by the Central Command's X handle also featured a video of missiles blasting from a US Navy ship, then blowing up an urban compound to dust. Follow live updates on the Iran-US-Israel conflict

"The Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) killed more than 1,000 Americans over the past 47 years. Yesterday, a large-scale U.S. strike cut off the head of the snake," the US Central Command said.

It prided itself on the US military's capabiliti...