UPDATE: Details on Iranian officials reported dead, Israel officials release statements after strikes on Iran

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More details are emerging as Iranian state media has confirmed that multiple top officials were killed when Israel launched a wave of attacks early Friday morning on Iran’s nuclear program.

From the New York Times: Israel attacked at least six military bases around Tehran, including Parchin, and residential homes at two highly secure complexes for military commanders and multiple residential buildings around Tehran, in what appears to be targeted assassinations, according to four senior Iranian officials.

An unnamed Israeli official reportedly told Fox News, “We are just getting started.”

From OSINTdefender: The Headquarters of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in the Iranian capital of Tehran was reportedly hit with multiple missiles, causing the destruction of the entire building and several fires which are still raging, according to local sources in Tehran.

The Iranian officials believed to have been taken out in the strikes include:

  • Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps. commander Gen. Hossein Salami
  • Former Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, Fereydoon Abbasi-Davani
  • The Commander of the Khatam-al Anbiya Central Headquarters of the Iranian General Staff, Major General Gholam Ali Rashid
  • Mohammad Mehdi Tehranchi, President of the Islamic Azad University in Tehran

JUST HOURS EARLIER: Major General Hossein Salami, chief commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) had threatened, “Our next confrontation with the Israelis will be far more crushing, devastating, and destructive.”

Now, he has been eliminated.

“If reports are true, this appears to have been a near perfect decapitation strike by Israel against Iran’s Armed Forces and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). I don’t think they know what to do right now,” wrote OSINTdefender.

CRITICALLY INJURED:

Just hours after the attack, it was reported that Ali Shamkhani, an advisor to Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was “critically injured” in the airstrikes and is in the hospital.

Those left are threatening retaliation:

The Spokesman for the Iranian Armed Forces, General Shekarchi has said that Israel and the United States will “recieve a forceful slap” and Iran’s Armed Forces are prepared and would be retaliating in force soon with counterstrikes. He said “a retaliation attack is definite, God willingly.”

Multiple Israeli officials have released statements after the attacks began. The Israel Defense Forces announced:

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐈𝐃𝐅 𝐥𝐚𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐝 𝐚 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐦𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞, 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐬𝐞, 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐛𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐨𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐈𝐫𝐚𝐧’𝐬 𝐧𝐮𝐜𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐦.

Dozens of IAF jets completed the first stage that included strikes on dozens of military targets, including nuclear targets in different areas of Iran.

Today, Iran is closer than ever to obtaining a nuclear weapon. Weapons of mass destruction in the hands of the Iranian regime are an existential threat to the State of Israel and to the wider world.

The State of Israel has no choice but to fulfill the obligation to act in defense of its citizens and will continue to do so everywhere it is required to do so, as we have done in the past.

IDF Spokesperson BG Effie Defrin also explained the reason for the operation in a video statement:

Israeli Chief of General Staff, Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir released the following statement about the strikes:

“We went on the offensive because the time has come. We have reached the point of no return. We must not wait for another time to act. We have no choice. History, both distant and recent, has taught us that in the face of ambitions to destroy us, we must not bow our heads, and on this basis we fight to preserve our existence. Freedom was given to those who are willing to fight for it.”

“I don’t promise you only successes. The Iranian regime will try to strike us back,” he said, adding, “I warn, anyone who tries to challenge us will pay a heavy price. We go into battle together. One goal stands before our eyes – to bring a safer future to the State of Israel and its citizens. With faith, together and in a common effort, we will win.”

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