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Defense Minister Israel Katz announced on June 18 that Israel had destroyed Iran’s police headquarters in the capital, Tehran, as the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) stepped up strikes on the Islamic Republic.
Israeli Air Force (IAF) fighter jets “destroyed the headquarters of the Iranian regime’s internal security, the main arm of the Iranian dictator’s oppression,” Katz said.
“As we promised, we will continue to target symbols of [Iran’s] rule and strike the Ayatollah regime wherever it may be,” he added.
Later, the IDF announced that some 25 fighter jets of the IAF had attacked at least 40 Iranian military targets in western Iran earlier in the day. The targets included missiles aimed at Israel, missile storage facilities and Iranian soldiers, according to the military.
Military spokesman Brig. Gen. Effie Defrin also said during a briefing the IAF had also bombed five Iranian AH-1 attack helicopters at an air base in the western city of Kermanshah. The IDF would later announce that three additional helicopters were hit in the same air base.
In addition, the IAF bombed an Iranian anti-tank guided missile production site near Tehran that was used by Iran to supply Hezbollah, according to Defrin .
“Air force aircraft are flying over surface-to-surface missile launch and storage sites. The aircraft are striking operatives who are attempting to return and take munitions from the sites that were previously targeted,” the spokesman said.
“Our message to them is clear: If you try to restore the terror capabilities in the area, you will be targeted,” he added.
The spokesman said that Israel has hit more than 1,100 Iranian assets in hundreds of strikes since the start of the attack on Iran on June 13.
“We are operating systematically to neutralize the nuclear threat,” he said, adding that the strikes are “deepening the significant damage” caused to Iran’s ballistic missiles and air defenses.
Iranian officials have reported at least 224 deaths in Israeli attacks, though that toll has not been updated for three days now.
The Washington-based Human Rights Activists monitoring group estimates the death toll at at least 585 people, including 239 civilians.
All in all, the IAF maintains the freedom of operation over western Iran and vast parts of the country’s central region, including Tehran. Despite this, Iranian missile and drone attacks are yet to stop. While this does not necessarily mean that Israel has failed, it does indicate that the IDF has reached its operational limits. Due to this, a direct intervention by the United States seems more than likely.
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israel is losing hard and the usa knows it! russia, china and pakistan helping iran already and this is just the beginning. the jews playing the same ancient game but this time there is a big suprise waiting for the baby killers.
russia no capacity to help anybody due to fully occupied in ukraine and struggling. china will not involve because they want to do business with eu and usa and uk. that is reality and now russia needs north korean manpower to help build destroyed russian properties. hehehe.
stupid fatass geopolitics explain why the west is losing and is desperate to have any win at all. don level stupidity here expecting american all powerfulness that will encounter the reality that the israeli have already encountered.
west is not losing. it is all powerful and united and rules finance, tech and industry with superior everything jets, military food etc….
i wonder how someone could put so many nonsense in a single sentence. serious denial arising from the cognitive dissonance realizing the decline of the west. we are in thucydide’s trap and the west is losing : that is why it is so agressive.
china clearly is ahead of the us empire in tech. europe is a backwater. what is this “west” to which you refer?
neither russia, nor china, nor pakistan are helping iran yet. stop spreading bs. pakistan even closed its border to iran bc it is controlled by zionists.
you have no f*cking idea of what is happening and pretending you are just shows how much you swallow the c*ck of the western msm. and i would think that israel would welcome iranian people fleeing iran like israelis are fleeing israel right now.
israel dont allow videos of iran attacks and say as usual that we see in the ukraine propaganda..it is missile intercepted, people injured when they run for shelter, missile fall in open areas…but meanwhile no videos are allowed… nevatim air base was hit by 8 cruise missile, dimona facilities was hit, ram david air base and maor was hit…
don’t let yourself be divided into teams while the rulers laugh at you.
if you want to live…get out of tehran…
it’s the same old story — trolls celebrating a win before the fight even begins. where have we seen this before? don hasn’t seemed very upbeat lately. i doubt everything is going as expected.
israel is defenseless against the new gen iranian ballistic missiles. iran can hit anywhere in israel and this is just the appetizer, main course is incoming real fast! jews running like rats back to their holes.
…only if you’re mossad dog…
we have no idea what israel is hitting and we have no idea of what iran is holding in reserve. iran has been preparing for this war for a long time and maybe they are keeping ad assets for them to pop up at the time they are needed. so ‘we’ control the skies over iran may be, in fact, a trap. time will tell.
why is putin and russia so up israel’s ass!?!? these south front articles parroting idf press releases are uncritical and reek of pro israel propaganda. i am surprised south front published this rubbish. the western msm already does a great job of parroting idf press releases…why do it here?
prof merandi bravado on iran strength has dissipated and is now sad and crying. small country advanced military is crushing iran and eu, uk, nato and usa are all against iran. face it complete surrender and regime change as the west wants just like iraq and syria and eu and usa will control all the finances earned by the oil produced in those countries. that is the goal.
we have no idea what israel is hitting and we have no idea of what iran is holding in reserve. iran has been preparing for this war for a long time and maybe they are keeping ad assets for them to pop up at the time they are needed. so ‘we’ control the skies over iran may be, in fact, a trap. time will tell.
but right now, stupid fatass trolls anticipate their usual victory that usually turns south.
billions in dollars of damage because iran don’t want to agree some simple things. now look many people dead and buildings deatructed for nothing. face it the usa, eu, uk, france and canada control every country in the world.
you have to be really dumb to think that anything that iran will say or do will change anything at all. just like with iraq, it has all been planned for years and acquiescing to demands will not change anything. the us dni testified that iran is years away from an atomic bomb. what the us want is regime change in iran because it wants to weaken the brics and china.
iran will fall…it’s inevitable…heheheh