An Iranian television mouthpiece has warned up to 50,000 American soldiers will be returned to Washington in ‘coffins’ after Donald Trump raised the possibility of regime change in Tehran.

State TV anchor Mehdi Khanalizadeh accused Trump of choosing to ‘spill the blood of your soldiers’, before adding: ‘The US president in the Oval Office chose to take delivery of the coffins of up to 50,000 US soldiers in Washington.’

It comes as Iran warns the United States should expect ‘heavy consequences’ for striking its nuclear sites, issuing a threat that its entry into the conflict with Israel will ‘expand the scope of legitimate targets’.

Trump declared last night that ‘monumental damage’ has been done ‘to all nuclear sites in Iran’ as he called for a regime change in the Islamic Republic.

The US president wrote on his Truth Social page that satellite images he obtained showed the Iranian nuclear facilities were ‘obliterated,’ and noted that the most damage ‘took place far below ground level.’

Iranian media then reported that Israel was carrying out new strikes on the Fordow nuclear facilities today, with Israeli media saying the IDF was targeting an access road at the site.

Meanwhile huge clouds of smoke towered over Tehran as Israel launched a wave of strikes ‘with unprecedented force’, including on a military headquarters killing ‘hundreds’ of guards members.

Iranian health ministry says 13 children killed in Israeli air attacks so far

Iran’s health ministry has said at least 13 children have been killed since Israel started attacking Iran on June 13.

Hossein Kermanpour, the head of public relations at the ministry, said the youngest victim was just two months old.

He added that 44 women had also been killed in the Israeli attacks, including two who were pregnant.

The update did not provide an overall death toll, but in an earlier post on Saturday, he said that more than 400 people had been killed since the start of the conflict, with at least 3,056 others wounded.

‘The majority of casualties and the injured have been civilians,’ he said.