New Delhi, March 7 -- A purported video showing Israeli strikes at Tehran's Mehrabad international airport emerged on social media on Saturday. The footage showed a large ball of fire and billows of the smoke filling up the sky.

Mint could not verify the video.

The video emerged after the Israeli military said it was carrying out an "extensive" wave of strikes against regime targets in Iran's capital.

Israel said on March 7 it had launched "broad-scale" strikes on targets in Tehran, as the Iranian state broadcaster reported an explosion in the western part of the city.

On March 6, the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) said it launched 15th wave of airstrikes against the infrastructure of the Iranian terrorist regime in Tehran.

"The IDF has...