14 thoughts on Israel striking Iran.

Israel’s strike on Iran. Early Friday morning, around 3:30am local time in Tehran, Israel launched a series of coordinated attacks against Iran, targeting military bases, top generals, and nuclear enrichment facilities. Over 200 Israeli aircraft took part in the strikes on over 100 different targets. According to senior Iranian officials, at least six military bases around the capital of Tehran were attacked, along with residential homes in military compounds, defense and industrial compounds in Kermanshah and Isfahan, and radar facilities in Piranshahr. Israel also targeted key components of Iran’s nuclear program, striking Iran’s main enrichment facility in Natanz and a nuclear research center in Tabriz, along with two military bases and an airport in the country’s northwest. 

The operation represents the largest single-day attack on Iran since the 1980s. Israel targeted several nuclear scientists and killed at least six in the attack, along with at least 20 senior Iranian commanders, including four top generals: Hossein Salami, head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC); Mohammad Bagheri, chief of staff of Iran’s armed forces; Amir Ali Hajizadeh, commander of the IRGC air force; and Gholamali Rashid, commander of Iran’s central military headquarters.