Tel Aviv [Israel], March 18 (ANI): The Israeli Air Force (IAF) announced it carried out a “wide-scale airstrike in Tehran,” saying “command centres of the Iranian terror regime were attacked” during the operation.
In a post on X, the IAF said the mission, conducted Tuesday and guided by Military Intelligence, targeted “command centres, sites of the ballistic missile array, and additional infrastructure of the Iranian terror regime.” Visuals released by the military included an aerial reconnaissance photograph of a large complex in Tehran, showing warehouses and administrative buildings with a section highlighted as the strike area.
The statement said among the sites struck were “the headquarters of the Revolutionary Guards’ security unit, responsible for handling protests and public order violations in Iran.” The IAF added the strikes neutralised a “maintenance centre of the Logistics and General Support Division of the Internal Security Forces” and a “headquarters belonging to the ballistic missile array.” It also said “several air defence systems were attacked with the aim of expanding the Air Force’s air superiority over Iranian skies.”
The operation was described as a strategic effort to increase pressure on Tehran’s military capabilities; the IAF said the strikes are “part of the phase of deepening the damage to the core arrays of the Iranian terror regime and its foundations.”
The IAF action followed a major offensive by the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), which reportedly struck over 100 targets in Tel Aviv. Press TV reported the Iranian assault was in retaliation for the killing of Ali Larijani, a former top security official. The IRGC said the strikes were part of the “61st wave” of its retaliatory “Operation True Promise 4.”
Press TV reported the operation used multi-warhead Khorramshahr-4 and Qadr missiles, plus Emad and Kheibar Shekan projectiles, and said the missiles hit more than 100 military and security targets in the “occupied territories” without “any obstruction.” The IRGC attributed the success to what it described as the “disintegration of the Zionist regime’s multilayered and highly advanced air defence systems.”
Field information cited by Press TV indicated a “partial blackout” in Tel Aviv after the strikes, complicating control and rescue efforts. The IRGC also claimed “Operation True Promise 4” resulted in more than 230 casualties, dead or injured. The retaliatory campaign reportedly targeted sites in al-Quds, the port of Haifa, Be’er Sheva and the Negev Desert. Press TV additionally reported impacts at American outposts across the region, including in Qatar, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. (ANI)
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