A person standing on the roof of a building looks at a plume of smoke rising after a strike on the Iranian capital, Tehran, on Tuesday. Vahid Salemi/AP hide caption

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The war with Iran stretched into a fifth day Wednesday, with Israel launching a new wave of strikes in Tehran as public mourning for the slain supreme leader began.

The Israeli military said Wednesday a "broad wave of strikes" targeted internal security command centers in Tehran, as well as missile launchers and other systems.

The strikes came amid preparations in Iran for three days of funeral ceremonies for Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, according to Iranian state media.

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U.S. Central Command said late Tuesday that Iran's "air defenses and hundreds of ballistic missile launchers and drones" were "severely degraded" following U.S. and Israeli strikes on 2,000 targets.

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