Moments before the attack, Emami was saying: “Listen, what you hear is the sound of the aggressor. You hear the sound of the aggressor attacking the truth.”

Jabari said these are going to be “extraordinary scenes”. “This TV channel is the most watched inside the country because foreign channels are banned inside Iran,” Jabari said. “So people use satellite dishes to access foreign media and channels and it’s very difficult most of the time, so this is the most accessible to the general public.”

Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz, who said that “the mouthpiece of Iranian propaganda and incitement is on the verge of disappearing. The evacuation of nearby residents has begun”.