Tehran, March 27 — Despite US President Donald Trump indicating a temporary easing of strikes by extending a requested seven-day pause to 10 days (through April 6), US and Israeli forces have continued operations against Iranian military targets.
An analysis by the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) says the combined campaign has focused on Iranian missile forces, launchers, and facilities involved in missile storage and production, with intensifying strikes against elements of Iran’s defense industrial base. ISW reported likely strikes on the 7th Artesh Air Force Tactical Airbase in Shiraz (Fars Province), an IRGC Ground Forces Ansar ol Hossein provincial unit in Hamedan City (Hamedan Province), and an IRGC headquarters near Bonab (East Azerbaijan Province). Satellite imagery from March 15, the think tank added, showed significant damage to naval and air infrastructure at the IRGC 4th Sarallah Naval District in Bushehr Province, which controls the central Persian Gulf and the South Pars gas field.
Strikes on March 25 and 26 marked the north-eastern-most operations so far in the campaign. Separately, the Israel Defense Forces announced it had killed IRGC Navy Commander Rear Admiral Alireza Tangsiri in Bandar Abbas.
Iran has continued retaliatory actions. The IRGC said it launched “wave 83” of Operation True Promise 4 in the early hours of Friday, employing missiles and drones against what it described as key American and Israeli military sites across the region. An IRGC public relations statement listed a range of claimed impacts, naming targets such as storage tanks and an oil depot in Ashdod; a military personnel location in Modi’in; a regional US military information-exchange center; American bases at Al-Dhafra and Al-Udeid; maintenance and storage hangars for transport aircraft and drones at Ali Al-Salem Air Base; fuel tanks for US jets and fighters; and a maintenance and repair hangar for a Patriot missile system at Sheikh Isa Base.
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