Mojtaba Khamenei chosen as Iran's next supreme leader, Iranian state media reports

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said at a briefing at the Pentagon on Wednesday, "America is winning decisively, devastatingly and without mercy."

“We have only just begun," he said.

"It’s very early and has President Trump has said we will take all the time we need to make sure that we succeed," he said. “We are only four days into this and the results have been incredible."

"We are accelerating, not decelerating," he said.

In a few days, Hegseth said, there will be complete control of Iranian airspace.

A total of 186 students and teachers have been killed and 114 others are injured from the U.S-Israeli attacks on different locations across Iran, according to the Iranian education ministry.

About 20 education centers have been either damaged or fully destroyed, the statement added.

-ABC News’ Somayeh Malekian

Iran's official Islamic Republic News Agency said Wednesday that the Iranian death toll from the ongoing U.S.-Israeli military operation had risen to 1,045, citing the state-funded Foundation of Martyrs and Veterans Affairs.

-ABC News’ Morgan Winsor

Two Israeli sources briefed on the matter told ABC News on Wednesday that Israel had killed Rahman Makdem, the head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' special operations division who was alleged to have been behind the attempted assassination of President Donald Trump in 2024.

The location of the killing was not immediately clear. Trump was informed of the operation by the Israelis, the sources said.

-ABC News’ Jordana Miller and Joe Simonetti