TEHRAN: Israel hit Revolutionary Guard websites and the infamous Evin jail in Tehran on Monday (Jun 23), calling them its strongest strikes but on the Iranian capital on the eleventh day of the battle.
Iran, in flip, fired missile barrages at Israel and vowed retaliation towards the US after it struck the Islamic Republic’s nuclear websites a day earlier.
Loud explosions rocked the Iranian capital, the place Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz stated the navy hit “regime targets” with “unprecedented pressure”, including to hypothesis that Israel could search to topple Iran’s clerical management.
The targets included Evin jail, which Katz stated “holds political prisoners and regime opponents”, in addition to command centres of the home Basij militia and the highly effective Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
The Israeli navy stated in an announcement that the targets belong to Iranian forces “accountable … for defending the homeland safety, suppressing threats, and sustaining the regime’s stability”.
Iranian media and the Israeli navy stated Israel additionally struck Fordo, a key nuclear enrichment facility buried deep within the mountains south of Tehran.
The navy stated it had struck Fordo on Monday “with a purpose to hinder entry routes” to the positioning, which Israel’s ally, the US hit the day past with “bunker buster” bombs.
