Israeli attacks affect 18 of Iran’s 31 provinces, Red Crescent says

Thirty members of the Iranian armed forces and one Red Crescent staff member were killed in Israeli attacks against military and civilian facilities in East Azarbaijan province, northwestern Iran, the provincial governor said on Saturday.

At least 55 others were wounded, the official said.

19 locations across the province have come under attack following what he called Israel’s “blatant aggression” against Iranian territory.

Israeli warplanes would soon fly over Tehran and strike all key targets of Iran's clerical establishment, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Saturday.

“We will strike every site and every target of the Ayatollahs’ regime,” Netanyahu said in a recorded statement.

Netanyahu added that Iran was in a late-stage push to develop nuclear weapons. “We were at the 90th minute. There was a race by Iran’s nuclear teams to create nuclear bombs—atomic bombs for Israel’s destruction.”

The Israeli leader framed the campaign as a bid to eliminate both nuclear and ballistic threats from Iran.

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Three Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps members were killed in an Israeli strike on the Zarandiyeh Basij base on Saturday, Iran’s Tasnim news agency said,

“Following the brutal attack by the Zionist regime on the Zarandiyeh Basij base, three members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps were killed,” Tasnim quoted the Guards as saying.

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A ballistic missile launcher in western Iran that was prepared to fire was targeted and destroyed, the Israeli Defense Force said.

It released footage of the strike, saying dozens of air defense systems were hit overnight and aerial superiority established from western Iran to Tehran.

The Israeli military said more than 70 fighter jets took part in a wide-scale overnight operation over Tehran, striking dozens of sites including Iranian air defense systems, in what it described as its deepest incursion into Iranian territory to date.

Israel Defense Forces (IDF) spokesman Brigadier General Effie Defrin said the operation, which lasted approximately two and a half hours, targeted around 40 sites in and around the Iranian capital.

“The dozens of aircraft are flying freely over Tehran, thanks to the opening blow that removed the threat of Iranian air defense systems,” Defrin said.

“Tehran is no longer immune; the capital is exposed to Israeli strikes,” he said.