Israeli warplanes carried out a sweeping series of airstrikes across Iran over the past 24 hours, hitting more than 400 targets. According to the IDF, the strikes targeted a wide range of Iranian military assets, including aircraft, ammunition depots, air-defense systems and infrastructure tied to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
Among the most notable targets were several Iranian F-14 fighter jets located at an airport in the central city of Isfahan. The aircraft, relics of Iran’s pre-revolutionary military arsenal, were among the last of their kind still in operation anywhere in the world.
Iran originally received 79 U.S.-made F-14 Tomcats in 1976 when the country was ruled by Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. After the 1979 Islamic Revolution, the aircraft were seized by the new Islamic Republic and have remained in service ever since. The United States retired the F-14 from its own Navy fleet in 2006, replacing it with the F/A-18.
The IDF said the strikes in Isfahan also targeted detection and air-defense systems that posed a threat to Israeli aircraft operating over Iran.
Isfahan has been a repeated focus of Israeli operations during the campaign. The military previously struck the city to destroy Ghadr-class ballistic missiles and their launch platforms, part of Iran’s long-range missile arsenal.
Elsewhere, the IDF said it struck approximately 50 ammunition bunkers and additional regime-linked sites in Tehran on Sunday. A separate strike earlier in the campaign destroyed 16 aircraft belonging to the IRGC’s elite Quds Force at Tehran’s Mehrabad Airport.
Among the strategic targets hit was the headquarters of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards space and satellite program. The facility, according to the IDF, served as a reception, transmission and research center for the Iranian Space Organization.
The site also housed the command and operations building for the Khayyam satellite, launched in August 2022. Israeli officials said the satellite had been used by the IRGC for surveillance of Israel and other countries across the region.
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Already as this is going on 2 Iranian cargo ships left a Chinese port from which Iran has always shipped the chemicals needed for the solid fuel for their ballistic missiles. As an higher up officer in the Republican Guard said we will just make more ballistic missiles. So unless Israel plans on bombing Iran every month or so taking out the current batch of missiles won’t accomplish anything for the long term. As to keeping on bombing them, Iran will start producing their missiles so deep under a mountain that even the US with its Massive Ordinance Penetrator won’t be able to destroy them.