On the night of March 7, Israel launched airstrikes on the territory of Iran and Lebanon. In particular, the targets were key military facilities: an underground ballistic missile depot, as well as missile launchers and weapons storage facilities.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) reported this on Telegram.
More than 80 Israeli fighter jets were involved in the attack.
“Guided by intelligence from the Israel Defense Forces, we have completed another wave of strikes on infrastructure belonging to the Iranian terrorist regime in Tehran and other areas of central Iran,” the report said.
It is noted that the Israel Defense Forces struck a number of military targets in Iran, including:
- the main military university of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps named after Imam Hossein, where officers of the military formation were trained. The university was also used as a warehouse of the IRGC, in particular, numerous military facilities of the Corps were located on its territory;
- a storage location for an Iranian missile unit, on whose territory military bunkers and a deployed launch infrastructure were located;
- underground warehouse for storing ballistic missiles.
Also, “in order to reduce the scale of fire directed at the territory of the State of Israel” in the central and western regions of Iran, launchers were hit.
In addition, during the night, the IDF carried out strikes on various areas of southern Lebanon and the Bekaa Valley, hitting missile launchers, weapons depots and other military facilities of the pro-Iranian group Hezbollah. Hezbollah (from Arabic “party of Allah”) is a Lebanese Islamist terrorist organization and political party. It is recognized as a terrorist organization by the governments of the United States, Canada, Israel and Bahrain. The EU, Britain, Australia and the Netherlands recognize individual Hezbollah bodies as terrorist. Formed in 1982 with the support of supporters of Ayatollah Khomeini, the first Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran. “.
According to the Lebanese Ministry of Health, 16 people were killed and at least 35 others were injured in an attack on the town of Nabi Shit in the Bekaa region.
At the same time, two command centers and commanders of the Radwan Forces unit were hit in the Majdal Selm area. An elite special forces unit of the Shiite movement Hezbollah, created for sabotage operations. The main target is the “pro. “, which Israel considers responsible for recent attacks against the IDF and civilians.
According to the Iranian news agency Fars, Israeli airstrikes severely damaged an emergency station in the Naziabad district of Tehran, injuring several workers and local residents who were nearby. In addition, a medical facility was destroyed in the city of Zanjan in Malayer district.
In response to the Israeli attacks, Iran launched strikes on the territory of the United Arab Emirates, including the capital Abu Dhabi, as well as on Kuwait and Iraq.
Iranian naval forces carried out drone attacks on US military installations at Al-Minhad in the UAE and Al-Adair in Kuwait. They also struck radar stations at the Israeli air force base in Sdot-Miha.
In turn, the IRGC missile unit struck three positions of “separatist groups” in Iraq and the Al-Dhafra airbase in the UAE.