Iran’s busiest airport has been engulfed in a huge fireball after being bombarded by relentless overnight strikes as Donald Trump demanded Tehran’s “unconditional surrender”. Footage from Tehran’s Mehrabad airport shows a burning plane and plumes of thick smoke rising into the sky.

Satellite imagery taken on Friday shows multiple aircraft were at the airport. It is unclear at this moment in time which parts of the airport have been bombed. Built in 1938, Mehrabad Airport is home to numerous aerospace companies that have been linked to Iran’s defence industry. The Israel Defense Forces said more than 80 fighter jets carried out a “broad-scale wave of strikes” on Iranian military sites, missile launchers and other targets in Tehran and central Iran on Saturday.

The IDF said the strikes targeted military infrastructure, including the Imam Hossein military university, which trains officers for Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). It said the university housed multiple military assets.

The Israeli Defence Forces struck areas of Beirut, prompting Iran to respond with a barrage of missiles aimed at Israel.

This comes hours after US President Donald Trump demanded Iran’s “unconditional surrender”, later explaining that it could be when the Iranian’s “announce it” or when “they can’t fight any longer because they don’t have anyone or anything to fight with”.

The 79-year-old leader also vowed to “make Iran great again”.

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Writing on his Truth Social platform, Trump said: “There will be no deal with Iran except UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER!

“After that, and the selection of a GREAT & ACCEPTABLE Leader(s), we, and many of our wonderful and very brave allies and partners, will work tirelessly to bring Iran back from the brink of destruction, making it economically bigger, better, and stronger than ever before.

“IRAN WILL HAVE A GREAT FUTURE. MAKE IRAN GREAT AGAIN (MIGA!).”

Speaking on Friday, White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt said the administration expected military operations to last four to six weeks.

The conflict which has now entered its second week has resulted in at least 1,230 fatalities in Iran, over 200 in Lebanon and approximately a dozen in Israel, according to officials from these countries.