The Israeli Air Force carried out multiple waves of airstrikes across Iran over the past 24 hours, hitting dozens of weapons production and development facilities in what the IDF described as one of its most extensive bombardments of Iranian military infrastructure to date.

Sixty Israeli fighter jets participated in the operation, dropping more than 150 bombs on facilities near Tehran and across central Iran, the DF said.

Among the targets struck overnight was a cluster of weapons manufacturing sites in Isfahan, including a facility belonging to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ elite Quds Force and a plant used to manufacture air defense systems.

The most significant strikes, however, were concentrated in the Parchin area east of Tehran, which the IDF described as “the Iranian regime’s most central facility for the production of missiles and defense systems.” The military said it struck at least four distinct installations there: a facility used to develop air defense systems; a plant for casting and filling warheads with explosives; a site used for mixing and casting engines in the development of ballistic missiles; and a facility producing critical components for solid-fuel ballistic missiles.

The breadth of the targets reflects an Israeli effort to degrade Iran’s capacity to produce the weapons systems it has relied upon throughout the ongoing conflict, striking not only finished arsenals but the industrial infrastructure that feeds them.

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