Illustrative image. (Israeli Defense Forces)
The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) announced on June 22 that it had attacked a base in the central Iranian area of Yazd where Khorramshahr medium-range ballistic missiles were stored.
Fighter jets of the Israeli Air Force (IAF) flew some 2,200 kilometers from Israel to attack the key missile base, according to the military, which said that Iran had previously launched some 60 missiles from the base.
With a range of up to 2,000 kilometers and a warhead weighting some 1,800 kg, Khorramshahr is considered one of the heaviest missiles in Iran’s arsenal.
“In broad daylight, we surprised the Imam Hussein missile headquarters in central Iran, the furthest target we’ve struck to date,” said IAF chief Maj. Gen. Tomer Bar.
The deepest strike in Iran was in fact last week’s IAF bombing of Mashhad Airport in the east of the Islamic Republic, over 2,300 kilometers from Israel.
“We destroyed Khorramshahr missiles before they were launched at Israel and struck tunnels used to store the missiles,” Bar continued.
“We are continuing waves of strikes across Iran, disrupting the enemy’s ability to launch salvos into Israeli territory, degrading their firepower capabilities, and operating decisively to defend the Israeli home front and reduce rocket fire,” he added.
Earlier, the IDF said that 30 IAF fighter jets dropped 60 munitions on targets in Yazd, the southwestern areas of Bushehr and Khuzestan, as well as in the area of Isfahan in the center of the Islamic Republic.
In Isfahan, Bushehr and Ahvaz, the military said that it targeted missile launchers, air defense battery production sites, a headquarters of an Iranian drone regiment and a drone storage facility.
Amid the strikes, an IAF drone identified Iranian soldiers “arming missile launchers, and eliminated them shortly afterward.”
This was the second wave of Israeli strikes to hit Iran since the United States carried out its first attack on the Islamic Republic in the early morning hours. The attack, which targeted nuclear sites in Fordow, Isfahan and Natanz, cemented Washington’s support of the Israeli war on Iran, which began on June 13.
In an inital repsonse, Iran launched over 20 missiles at central and northern Israel in the morning, wounding more than 80 people. A larger response, possibily directed against U.S. forces in the Middle East, is expected in the coming hours.
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