Israel’s military announced on Monday that it carried out airstrikes on multiple targets in central Iran, marking the first such operation since the Islamic Republic appointed a new supreme leader.
“The Israeli Air Force… completed an additional wave of strikes on infrastructure across Iran belonging to the Iranian regime,” the military said.
Among the targets were “a rocket engine production facility and several long-range ballistic missiles launch sites” that posed a threat to Israel, the statement added.
The strikes also hit the internal security headquarters in Isfahan, a police headquarters, and other facilities used by the Revolutionary Guards and the paramilitary Basij force, according to Israel’s military.
“The Internal Security and Basij forces… constitute a central arm in the repression of the Iranian civilian population and are responsible for the use of brutal and systematic violence against it,” the statement said.
Israel further described the operation as part of efforts to “deepening the damage to the core arrays and foundations of the Iranian regime.”
The military emphasized that these strikes are the first wave since Tehran appointed Mojtaba Khamenei as the Islamic Republic’s supreme leader late Sunday.
