Dhaka, June 23 -- Israel has launched a fresh wave of attacks targeting "access routes" to Iran's Fordo nuclear facility, escalating tensions just a day after the site reportedly sustained damage from US airstrikes.

According to Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant, the military is now striking Tehran with "unprecedented force". Iran's judiciary confirmed that the capital's notorious Evin prison has been hit in the ongoing bombardment.

The situation comes amid a flurry of remarks from US President Donald Trump, who has floated the possibility of a leadership change in Iran-despite earlier reassurances from his administration that regime change was not the goal of recent US strikes. Those weekend attacks, Trump claimed, caused "monument...