Bhubaneswar, March 2 -- The United States Central Command announced on Monday that it had destroyed the headquarters of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in a strike it described as cutting off the "head of the snake." A video shared by the command showed missiles launched from a US Navy ship striking an urban compound, reducing it to rubble. The US stated that the IRGC, responsible for killing over 1,000 Americans in the past 47 years, no longer has a headquarters and emphasized the strength of American military capabilities.

The strikes follow a joint US-Israel operation on Saturday that killed Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, triggering retaliatory missile and drone attacks by Iran across the Gulf. Explosio...