A fleet of over 80 Israel Air Force fighter jets completed another wave of strikes targeting infrastructure belonging to the Iranian regime in Tehran, which included the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Air Force situation room, which was key to the air defense systems in Iran and was located in the heart of Tehran, the IDF announced early Saturday.
The strikes also targeted 16 aircraft belonging to the elite Quds Force that were being used to transfer weapons to Hezbollah in Lebanon, the military said.
An earlier IDF statement said that several military sites were struck, including the main IRGC military university, the Imam Hossein University, which was used for the training of IRGC officers and as an emergency asset, and, most recently, an IRGC assembly compound during Operation Rising Lion.
The university contained multiple military assets used by the IRGC.
A storage site of the Iranian missile unit, in which military bunkers and launching infrastructure were located were also targeted, as well as underground infrastructure used for storing ballistic missiles where hundreds of regime operatives were operating. The site included military bunkers and command centers housing senior officials of the Iranian regime, the IDF said.
IDF continues strikes on launch pads across Iran
Moreover, several launch sites identified in western and central Iran were also struck in order to reduce the scope of fire directed toward Israel, the IDF said.
The IDF also revealed that it had struck sites in Parchin and Shahrud, the two main areas where the regime produces its ballistic missiles and additional weapons.
"Over the past week, hundreds of Israeli Air Force fighter jets, acting on IDF intelligence, struck two of the Iranian terror regime's main production sites," the military said.
Among the targets were factories producing explosive materials for ballistic missile warheads, complexes producing unique raw materials for missile engines, a missile engine mixing and casting facility, and a complex used for the research, development, assembly, and production of advanced cruise missiles.
The combined effort to impact the Iranian regime’s firing and defense capabilities, as well as to degrade the Iranian regime’s production infrastructure, is ongoing, the IDF added.
IDF strikes senior Iranian regime commander in Tehran
On Friday, the IDF confirmed striking former Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s underground bunker in Tehran.
Some 50 aircraft targeted the bunker, which, according to the IDF, was located beneath the regime leadership's Tehran compound.
Although Khamenei himself was killed nearly a week prior, the IDF noted that the bunker was intended to be used as "a secure emergency command center" and "continued to be used by senior Iranian regime officials."
The IDF went on to assert that it had been one of the Iranian regime's most critical military command centers.
The Jerusalem Post Staff contributed to this report.