The IDF launched a series of strikes targeting Iranian regime infrastructure across Tehran during the early morning hours on Friday, the military confirmed.
Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps spokesperson Ali Mohammad Naini was killed in the strikes, Iranian state media announced.
Naini, who also served as the IRGC's Public Relations Array chief, served in several propaganda and public relations roles, while serving as the group's "main propagandist" for the past two years, the IDF stated.
"In his role, Naini disseminated the regime's terrorist propaganda to its proxies across the Middle East in order to influence and advance terror attacks against the State of Israel from the different fronts. Naini’s elimination joins a series of eliminations of dozens of senior figures of the Iranian regime during the operation," the military wrote.
A second wave of strikes targeted Nur, east of Tehran, the military confirmed on Friday afternoon.
Israeli strikes burn vessels in Bandar-e Lengeh, IRGC-affiliated outlet claims
Video footage shared by N12 News appears to show explosions in the Iranian capital, while also reporting strikes in other Iranian cities, including Parchin, Kerman, Arak, and Bandar-e Lengeh.
Some of these strikes were corroborated by Iranian media. At least 16 "commercial and civilian barges" belonging to Iranian civilians were burned in an "American-Zionist airstrike" on Bandar-e Lenger, the IRGC-affiliated outlet Tasnim News Agency claimed.
On Thursday night, the military stated that it had struck more than 130 infrastructure sites belonging to the Iranian regime.
The targets included ballistic missile sites, UAVs, and defense systems across Western and central Iran.
The statement read “The Israel Air Force continues to strike in western and central Iran to reduce to the fullest extent possible the scope of fire toward the State of Israel and to expand its aerial superiority over Iran.”
Meanwhile, US Central Command on Thursday posted satellite imagery of the Karaj Surface-to-Surface Missile Plant, showing the damage caused after the US military conducted a strike on the facility on March 11, comparing it to earlier images of before the strike occured.
HRANA calculates at least 3,186 Iranian casualties in past three weeks
Additionally, the Human Rights Activists News Agency collated the casualties in Iran since operations Roaring Lion and Epic Fury began on February 28.
At least 3,186 people have been killed in the three weeks of strikes, HRANA's data showed, including 1,394 civilians, at least 210 of whom were children, 1,153 "military" fatalities, and 639 "unclassified" fatalities.
HRANA's data did not distinguish between those killed in Israeli or US strikes.