An Israeli IMI Delilah cruise missile under the wing of an Israeli Air Force F-16I Soufa Fighter. Picture taken at Kecskeméti Repülőnap 2010. By Wikimedia user (KGyST).
The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) announced on June 20 that the fighter jets of the Israeli Air Force (IAF) struck several Iranian air defense systems in central Iran in recent days.
In a statement, the military said that surface-to-air missile launchers and radars “that were intended to target IDF aircraft and prevent their operations.” were targeted by the IAF in the capital, Tehran, and the province of Isfahan.
IAF fighter jets and drones “continue to operate freely over Iran, striking military targets of the Iranian regime in western and central Iran,” the IDF says, adding that it will “continue working to expand aerial freedom of action in Iranian skies and to achieve air superiority.”
Footage released by the IDF showed several air defense systems being hit, including a Soviet-made Tor-M1E short-range system and MIM-23 Hawk medium-range system, in addition to what appears to be an Iranian copy of the Russian Kasta 2E2 radar. Both air defense systems were inactive when they were struck.
The systems were all targeted with Delilah air-launched cruise missiles. The Delilah, which has a range of 250 kilometers, was especially developed to attack moving targets. It is guided via a GPS-aided inertial navigation system with terminal electro-optical homing.
Separately, the IDF announced that the IAF attacked dozens of Iranian military facilities and a nuclear research site overnight.
More than 60 fighter jets were involved in the strikes, dropping 120 munitions, according to a statement released by the military, which said that the targets included “several industrial missile production sites” in Tehran, which had served as “the industrial core of Iran’s Defense Ministry.”
“Among the targets were military industrial sites producing missile components and facilities for manufacturing raw materials used in casting missile engines,” the IDF said.
The strikes also hit the “headquarters of the SPND [Organization of Defensive Innovation and Research] nuclear project,” according to the military.
“SPND serves as a hub for research and development of advanced technologies and weaponry for the Iranian regime’s military capabilities. It was established in 2011 by Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, the founder of Iran’s nuclear weapons program,” the IDF said.
Another site that was struck had been used to manufacture a “component essential to the regime’s nuclear weapons program,” it added.
The IAF destroyed some 35 missile launchers and storage sites in the western cities of Tabriz and Kermanshah in another wave of strikes in the morning, according to the IDF.
The military said in a statement that 25 fighter jets were involved in the strikes, during which “more than 35 infrastructure sites for the storage and launching of missiles” were hit.
Later in the morning, the IDF announced in a separate statement that the IAF struck Iran’s “Internal Security headquarters” and the headquarters of the Islamic Republic’s “special internal security unit” in Tehran.
A day earlier, the IDF released footage showing strikes on engineering vehicles allegedly working to restore ballistic missile launch sites. The military said that “dozens” of Iranian troops were killed in the strikes.
Israel appears to be preparing to escalate even more. On June 20, Defense Minister Israel Katz instructed the IDF to “intensify strikes on regime targets in Tehran” to “destabilize” the “Iranian regime.”
“We must strike all symbols of the regime and its mechanisms of oppression, such as the Basij, as well as the base of the regime’s power, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps,” Katz said during an assessment this morning with IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir and other top officers.
The minister added that Israel must bring about “a mass evacuation of the population from Tehran, in order to destabilize the regime and increase deterrence in response to missile fire on Israel’s home front, while continuing to target facilities and scientists to thwart Iran’s nuclear program, until all objectives of the operation are fully achieved.”
Iran will likely meet the Israeli escalation with more escalation. The Islamic Republic’s latest retaliatory strikes were especially devastating, and more is to be expected.
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iran will defeat zionist scum!
i am ayatollah the assahola! the only supreme assahola in iran . where is allah my air defense systems won’t activate despite my allahu akbar!
you low key g@e ass shape-shifting transvestite.
allahu akbar my death will be the restoration of freedom back to the persians!
lazy hasbaraniks scaled down to two talking points. things are tough all over, i suppose.
you low life goatf@acker shia scum
weird that the parasitic jewish supremacist organized crime enclave in palestine that has been extorting the us empire for nearly eighty years and has access to the entire spectrum of us intel and weaponry is able to suppress the response from iran, a state that has been under unrelenting assault for forty-six years. thanks for shitcocking, shitcock.
maybe you should ask why god doesn’t care about zion anymore. apparently he likes explosions there now and doesn’t mind a missile finding its way to netanyahu’s ass
hunting mullah-apes…heheheh
hunting iranian muslim clerics .. heheh
you can’t take the nazi out of jewish supremacists, that’s for darn sure!
real nazis is the one and only iranian shia clerics running a failed state like their supreme master putler
no, real nazis is the jewish supremacist organized crime enclave in palestine and its us golem. literally born out of racist terrorism like the german nazis.
what’s the point when you will only surrender to them again like in afghanistan? the taliban were terrorists, no? nice equipment you surrendered to mullahs along with all the american bases there
error 404 allahu akbar not found
you’re the same person using different names.
i am here to destroy and trashtalk all of you ayatollah pagan worshippers
haven’t seen a single post indicating worship ayatollahs nor paganism. just jewish supremacist trolling and people who are absolutely disgusted by the bloodthirtsty jewish supermacist organized crime enclave in palestine.
allahu akbar… dies
oy vey, derp!
putler continues to lose lol
putler running out of options
options for what? the us program in ukretardistan has failed. the sanctions against russia have failed.
somehow for these people, putin rules the world … talking about living rent free in their simpleton heads isn’t even beginning to cover it.
if it weren’t for their racist worldview, they would consider that iran is its own country and right now that country is standing tall to the empire.
and that is in stark constrast to israel which appears to be no more than an armed outpost of the west and is completely reliant on the west for everything. somehow for these morons calling for mommy is a dignified way of running a country.
due to the sheer scale of the wins of israel, israeli intelligence officials must vet each video before its release. the victories of israel are so dominant that exposing them might push the us to back iran. that’s how absolute the victory of israel is. /s
in fact, israel is so much winning that it is totally prepared to fight a long war of attrition where its economy is slowly destroyed a handful missiles per day at a time. and of course all its dual passports citizens will just stay here and take it. or wait to be called in the army to participate in a genocide for the 7th time. right now the victory writes itself. /s
otherwise they would be very annoyed and angry and lash out on the comments of south front for example. they won’t do that, of course, because they are confident in their victory. /s.
israelis are being splatted even by a single missile at this point. iran only needs to launch 1 per day and multiple israeli cockroaches get caught because of their dense population
still don’t know why iran not taking out key installations completely like oil water gas power. when that is not available nothing can work.
that’s the us and and jewish supremacist civilian terror method. tried and true from 1950 to today.
it’s incredible how quickly israel destroyed the iranian army. they’re professionals. unlike the nazi ruzzians 🇷🇺=🤡 😆😆😆
why is israel still receiving several dozens missiles in the face each day, then ? something doesn’t add up, and i think it’s your brain.
if the iranians are as destroyed as the million russians who are supposedly dead in ukraine, iran is going to take tel aviv
this whole brutal theatre is genial trap for destroying america and zionist colony. it started may 9 2018 at red square parade where mileikowsky and vvp cooked “deal”
russia brilliantly used their khazarian agents in america. provoking aggression against iran – fantastic stunt by khazarian agents directed by russia.
russia is sitting pretty right now. ukraine terrorist junta cannot get necessary material support to support military operations against the russian federation. not even israel can. late stage empire decadence all around in west.
there is always attrition in war, the only thing that matters is the ability to replenish it, which iran has in abundance over israel. simply refusing to surrender and holding the line, iran will restore its defenses with the aid of its allies and its own vast resources
harop drones not delilah
bible scripture are unfolding against israel regime visitors.with the same gun that you are killing you re get kill also.lets go 50/50 no excuse.how many doctors and scientist did israel terrorist pm killed without even being taken to western hague court of trump
magical thinking prevails. thanks for derping.
israel must control the media to gain acceptance . but needed universal approval will not come
they’ve had universal approval for almost eighty years.