IDF targets IRGC military training facility, missile storage, launch sites

A fleet of over 80 Israel Air Force fighter jets completed another wave of strikes targeting infrastructure belonging to the Iranian regime in Tehran, the IDF announced early Saturday. 

According to the IDF statement, several military sites were struck, including the main Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) military university, the Imam Hossein University, which was used for the training of IRGC officers and as an emergency asset, and, most recently, an IRGC assembly compound during Operation Rising Lion.

The university contained multiple military assets used by the IRGC.

A storage site of the Iranian missile unit, in which military bunkers and launching infrastructure were located were also targeted, as well as underground infrastructure used for storing ballistic missiles where hundreds of regime operatives were operating. The site included military bunkers and command centers housing senior officials of the Iranian regime, the IDF said.

Moreover, several launch sites identified in western and central Iran were also struck in order to reduce the scope of fire directed towrad Israel, the IDF said.

The combined effort to impact the Iranian regime’s firing and defense capabilities, as well as to degrade the Iranian regime’s production infrastructure, is ongoing, the IDF added.

On Friday, the IDF confirmed striking former Iranian supreme leader Ali Khamenei’s underground bunker in Tehran.

Some 50 aircraft targeted the bunker, which, according to the IDF, was located beneath the regime leadership's Tehran compound.

Although Khamenei himself was killed nearly a week prior, the IDF noted that the bunker was intended to be used as "a secure emergency command center" and "continued to be used by senior Iranian regime officials."

The IDF went on to assert that it had been one of the Iranian regime's most critical military command centers.