The Israeli Air Force completed a wave of airstrikes against dozens of headquarters belonging to Iran’s internal security forces in Tehran, the military says.
“As part of the sortie, the IDF struck headquarters and bases of internal security bodies subordinate to the Iranian terror regime and responsible for suppressing protests against the regime, including through the use of violence and the arrest of civilians,” the military says in a statement.
“Striking these bases deepens the blow to the regime’s repression capabilities,” the IDF says.
In addition, the military says it struck more than 10 headquarters belonging to Iran’s Intelligence Ministry, and a command center belonging to the IRGC’s Quds Force, where it says Iranian soldiers were gathered.
The IAF also struck Iranian ballistic missile launchers, a weapons production site, and other IRGC facilities as part of the strikes, the military adds.
IDF Spokesman Brig. Gen. Effie Defrin says, “All options are on the table,” when asked about a potential ground offensive against Hezbollah in Lebanon.
“The chief of staff was on the northern border, met with division commanders and the commanding officer of the Northern Command, briefed them, and approved plans,” he says in response to a question at a press conference.
“The bottom line is that all options are on the table. We will work to disarm Hezbollah from its weapons and remove threats to Israeli citizens,” Defrin says.
The IDF said that it bolstered forces on the northern border during the conflict with Iran.
Iran accuses Israel and the United States of having attacked its nuclear facility at Natanz yesterday, one of the main targets of the previous conflict between the three countries last June.
“The criminal regimes of the United States and Israel, pursuing their aggression, again targeted the Natanz nuclear site on Sunday afternoon in two brutal attacks,” Iran’s atomic energy chief Mohammad Eslami says in a letter to the UN’s nuclear watchdog quoted by the IRNA news agency.
Security officials said to believe pace of Iranian missile attacks will taper off in coming days
Iranian Quds Force warns, ‘The enemy will no longer be safe anywhere, not even home’
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps warns that the United States “will no longer be safe,” on the third day of joint US-Israeli attacks against the Islamic Republic.
“The enemy should know that their happy days are over and they will no longer be safe anywhere in the world, not even in their own homes,” the IRGC’s Quds Force, which oversees its foreign operations, says in a statement carried by state TV.
Health Ministry says 960 people have been treated at hospitals since start of Iran fighting
CENTCOM confirms B-1 heavy bombers carried out overnight attack in Iran
The American military confirms it used B-1 heavy bombers in overnight strikes in Iran.
“Last night, US B-1 bombers, struck deep inside Iran to degrade Iranian ballistic missile capabilities,” the US Central Command says.
The deployment of the B-1 aircraft was first published by the founder of the Military Air Tracking Alliance, a team of about 30 open-source analysts that analyzes military and government flight activity
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards claim drone attack on oil tanker in Strait of Hormuz
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps says that they attacked an allegedly US-linked oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz as part of a wave of strikes retaliating against a US-Israeli assault.
“The ATHE NOVA tanker, one of the American allies in the Strait of Hormuz, is still on fire after being hit by two drones,” the Guards say in a statement. On Saturday, the Guards said they had closed the waterway, which is vital for oil and gas shipments, after the start of US and Israeli attacks.
US President Donald Trump argues that Operation Epic Fury that he authorized over the weekend was the “last best chance” to strike Iran and “eliminate the intolerable threats posed by this sick and sinister regime.”
After coming under criticism for failing to present a clear case for the operation to the American public, Trump lists four goals for the operation, in prepared remarks at a White House event.
One, destroying Iran’s missile capabilities. He again claims that Iran was soon going to have the ability to launch long-range missiles that could reach the US, which is reportedly not substantiated by American intelligence assessments.
“The purpose of this fast growing missile program was to shield their nuclear weapon development and make it extraordinarily difficult for anyone to stop them from making these highly forbidden by US nuclear weapons,” Trump says.
The second goal is to “annihilate” Iran’s navy, Trump says, boasting that the US has already sunk 10 of the Islamic Republic’s ships.
The third goal is to ensure Iran can never obtain a nuclear weapon. Trump has asserted that he obliterated Iran’s entire nuclear program by striking its three main sites last year.
He again claims that Iran “refused to cease their pursuit of nuclear weapons” after US warnings not to do so after last year’s strikes.
The fourth goal for the operation that Trump lists is to ensure that Iran cannot continue to back proxy militia groups beyond its borders.
He does not mention regime change, though he has urged Iranians in previous speeches to seize the opportunity provided by the strikes to “take over” their government.
Trump claims the US is “substantially ahead of our time projections” for the operation. “We projected four to five weeks, but we have capability to go far longer than that.”
“We also projected four weeks to terminate the military leadership, and, as you know, that was done in about an hour,” Trump claims.
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