Some 30 Israeli Air Force fighter jets struck dozens of military sites in the area of Ahvaz, in southwestern Iran, the IDF said on Saturday.
Explosions were heard in the Khuzestan province in the area, "from Ahvaz to Mahshahr," the state-affiliated Fars agency said. Smoke was rising in images shared among Iranians on social media, said to be from the area of the recent Israeli strikes.
According to the Israeli military, fighter jets struck a site where a storage site containing missile launchers, some of which had previously fired missiles toward Israeli territory.
IAF fighter jets also struck radar detection system sites used for detection and aerial intelligence gathering, and military infrastructure belonging to the IRGC, the IDF said.
Israel has destroyed 200 missile launchers since last Friday
Since the start of Israeli strikes on Iranian territory last Friday, the Air Force has destroyed some 200 surface-to-surface ballistic missile launchers across the Islamic Republic, as per IAF estimates.
These strikes, in addition to storage and launch sites targeted across Iran by the Air Force in cooperation with the Intelligence Directorate, have disrupted Iran's ability to fire from its west, with Israel pushing launches further eastward and southward.
This is a developing story.