The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) targeted Iranian military bases around the country’s capital city of Tehran during the early morning hours on Saturday, according to Israeli and Iranian media.
Israel had said in a statement that it was “conducting precise strikes on military targets in Iran.”
Fars news agency, which is linked to the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), confirmed the news, claiming that several military bases in the west and southwest of Tehran were targeted in the airstrikes.
Israel gave the U.S. at least six hours of advance notice of the strikes, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal.
The airstrikes appear to have hit multiple locations throughout Tehran, including the eastern, western, and southern parts of the city, according to The New York Times.
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In the east, there are military bases and secretive military sites, and in the west is the headquarters for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), the report said.
The Times added that explosions also were happening near Imam Khomeini international airport, which is in the southern part of the city.
A huge fire is seen in a video sent to @IranIntl_En by a citizen in Eslamshahr, southwestern Tehran during the Israeli airstrikes. pic.twitter.com/8ECLWbxUwZ
— Iran International English (@IranIntl_En) October 26, 2024
The Times said residents also reported hearing explosions in Isfahan, hundreds of miles south of Tehran; Mashhad, hundreds of miles east of Tehran; and Kurdistan Province, a couple hundred miles west of Tehran.
An Israeli official said that they were not targeting Iranian oil or nuclear facilities.
“We’re targeting things that might have threatened us in the past or could do in the future,” the official said.
The strikes come in response to the Islamic regime firing approximately 180 ballistic missiles into Israel at the start of the month, which sent the entire country running for bomb shelters.
Current and former Israeli officials had said for weeks that the country’s response to Iran would include a significant military response that would be deadly.
Flight trackers showed the airspace over Iran was wide open around the time that Israel began its strikes.
Open-source live airline maps appeared to show almost no civilian aircraft in the skies between Israel and Tehran as the Jewish state confirmed it had begun air strikes. pic.twitter.com/Vv3UXwwpV9
— Iran International English (@IranIntl_En) October 26, 2024
