Defense Minister Israel Katz continued Israel's escalating rhetoric and military measures against Iran on Sunday morning, announcing that the air force was essentially going to destroy and burn to the ground any site in Tehran which was military related.
Katz and the IDF's escalation comes after several rounds of hundreds of Iranian ballistic missiles were fired on Israel, killing 13 and wounding around 400 over the last three days.
A new escalation late Saturday was Israel striking top Iranian economic sites.
IDF officials explained attacks on the economic sites both as depleting the ability of nuclear and military programs to continue to operate as well as messaging to Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei that continued attacks on Israeli civilian locations could lead to broader pain and targeting by Israel of Iran.
Also, Israeli officials started to leak that if Iran continues to fire intentionally on civilians such as in Tel Aviv and Rishon LeZion, they may consider targeting Khamenei himself and pushing more the idea of toppling the regime.
However, Reuters reported that US President Donald Trump has vetoed Israel killing Khamenei.
Responding to the Reuters report, National Security Council Chief Tzachi Hanegbi said the US has no veto over such a decision and that Israel has not yet decided to kill Khamenei, but may decide to at some point.
In contrast, the wide Israeli attacks on Friday, in the Israeli narrative, were focused on top military officials involved in past attacks on Israel and the nuclear program.
It is unclear that Iran and Khamenei will "credit" Israel with having made any such distinction given the degree of national and strategic damage in Iran and the high ranks of those already killed.
To date, Khamenei has continued ordering attacks on Israeli cities as opposed to focusing on military targets.
The IDF attacked around 80 targets in Iran overnight and continues to attack almost nonstop.
On Sunday afternoon, Iran fired at least an estimated dozens of ballistic missiles, raising the total to around 300 over the last three days.
On Saturday night, Iran fired three salvos of around 60-75 ballistic missiles total at 11:00 p.m., 2:00 a.m., and 2:55 a.m.
Until now, the IDF has hit between 170-250 targets in Iran since Friday with impact on 720 different sites or sub-targets.
22 missile impact sites have been identified by Israel leading to the 13 fatalities, three minors and 10 adults.
An Iran ballistic missile salvo around 4:30 p.m. on Sunday afternoon failed to strike any targets in Israel, the IDF reported.
Previous ballistic missile salvos on Friday and Saturday hit a number of Israelis, causing 13 deaths and almost 400 wounded in several different Israeli cities.
However, the IDF on Sunday afternoon shot down any ballistic missiles which were going to strike Israel, and various others fell short given the around 1,500 kilometer range they must travel from Iran.
It was unclear why Tehran was less successful with this salvo, though the military is hoping that constant air attacks will reduce the Islamic Republic's ballistic missile attack capabilities.
Also on Sunday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu confirmed that the IDF had attacked Iran's top two intelligence officials.
Foreign reports have indicated that they may be trapped underground from the attack with their survival still an open question.
IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Eyal Zamir gave a speech late Sunday night saying that Iran will pay a heavy price for its attacks on Israeli civilians.