Defense Minister Israel Katz said Wednesday that Israel had destroyed Iran’s police headquarters in Tehran, as the IDF kept up heavy strikes across the Islamic Republic on the sixth day of fighting between the two countries, and as thousands continued to flee the Iranian capital.
Israeli Air Force fighter jets “destroyed the headquarters of the Iranian regime’s internal security, the main arm of the Iranian dictator’s oppression,” Katz said. “As we promised, we will continue to target symbols of [Iran’s] rule and strike the Ayatollah regime wherever it may be.”
Israeli officials have said they would welcome regime change in Tehran, while noting that it is not the purpose of the offensive, which is intended to take out Iran’s nuclear program and ballistic missile capabilities.
The IDF said Wednesday afternoon that the Israeli Air Force had carried out a wave of strikes on some 40 Iranian military targets in western Iran earlier in the day. Some 25 fighter jets were involved in the action, and the targets included missiles aimed at Israel, missile storage facilities and Iranian soldiers, according to the military.
The army said that overnight it had targeted an Iranian centrifuge production site and several weapon-production facilities, as well as an Iranian Emad ballistic missile launcher that was primed for an attack on Israel. It released footage showing the strike on the launcher, as well as on Iranian soldiers at a different ballistic missile launch site.
Since Friday, Israel has hit more than 1,100 Iranian assets in hundreds of strikes in Iran, IDF Spokesman Brig. Gen. Effie Defrin said in a press conference Wednesday afternoon.
“We are operating systematically to neutralize the nuclear threat,” he said, adding that the strikes are “deepening the significant damage” caused to Iran’s ballistic missiles and air defenses.
Defrin said the IAF had also bombed five Iranian AH-1 helicopters at a military airbase in Kermanshah Wednesday morning: “Their mission was to try and harm our aircraft.” Later in the day, the military said it had bombed another three AH-1 helicopters at Kermanshah.
Israel says its sweeping assault on Iran’s top military leaders, nuclear scientists, uranium enrichment sites and ballistic missile program launched early Friday morning is necessary to prevent the Islamic Republic from realizing its avowed plan to destroy the Jewish state.
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