The IDF announced extensive strikes on Iranian infrastructure and weapon production sites in Isfahan and Tehran. In response, Iran's IRGC warned the US-Israel against a ground operation and claimed missile attacks on Israeli cities.
IDF Conducts Extensive Strikes in Iran
The Israel Defence Forces on Thursday said that the IDF had completed a wave of extensive strikes in Iran's Isfahan. The IDF said it had targeted infrastructure of the Iranian regime in several areas.
Earlier Israel's Air Force said that under intelligence guidance, it had completed a wave of strikes overnight targeting production sites for weaponry of the Iranian terror regime in the Tehran area. In these strikes, several production sites for air and sea weaponry were attacked, and in parallel, defence systems and a missile launcher position against aircraft were attacked.
IRGC Issues Stern Warnings to US-Israel
Meanwhile, Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has issued a warning to the US-Israel forces on considering a possible ground operation within Iranian territory. "Don't send your children to hell with the deceit of Netanyahu and Trump. The invading soldiers will be deeply drowned and disappear in the million-strong sea of the Iranian nation," the statement warned.
In a direct appeal, the IRGC addressed the American people, warning that they are being misled by warmongers such as Trump and Netanyahu through lies and distortion of battlefield realities. "The truth of the war you must observe at American gas stations, on the streets of Iran, and in the skies of Tel Aviv and Haifa," the statement read.
US Mulls Troop Deployment, Ground Operation
According to a CBS report, the Pentagon is expected to deploy troops from the 82nd Airborne Division to the Middle East The news report said, citing a source familiar with the planning, that the Pentagon is planning to send elements of the division, including a command component and some ground forces, to the region. A possible ground operation in the Kharg Island is also being contemplated by the US.
Iran Claims Successful Missile Strikes on Israel
The IRGC further said that precision-guided Emad, Qiam, Khorramshahr-4, and Qadr missiles struck more than 70 locations across Israel in the 81st wave of Operation True Promise 4. IRGC Public Relations Department claimed the missiles successfully hit targets in Haifa, Dimona, Al-Khudriyya near Haifa, and areas north and south of Tel Aviv.
The IRGC concluded with a warning, "Remember, we will level Tel Aviv and Haifa to the ground, this is what our martyred Leader taught us." The IRGC says over 700 missiles and 3,600 drones have been fired at American and Israeli targets since the war began, while Iran's air defence systems have intercepted and destroyed more than 200 enemy aircraft, including cruise missiles and advanced fighter jets.
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