The Israel Defense Forces (IDF), on Monday morning, urged the residents of eastern Tehran to evacuate their neighborhoods ahead of a possibile aerial operation. The evacuation order has been issued for Tehran’s 3rd District, home to regime ministries and military establishment.
“More Israeli air strikes are reported in Tehran, as the Israeli military warns people in parts of the Iranian capital to evacuate,” the BBC reported. “The IDF says people in Tehran’s District 3 should leave as it targets “military infrastructure” in the area.”
While Iran indiscriminately fired ballistic missiles at Israeli towns and cities for the third day third day in a row, the IDF publicized on Persian language evacuation order on social media. “IDF Spokesperson in Arabic, Avichay Adraee, issued an evacuation warning in Persian to the residents of the third district of Tehran in a social media post on Monday,” the Jerusalem Post. “Adraee notified residents that the IDF will strike military infrastructure in the area in the next few hours, as it has done in recent days in Tehran.”
Initial reports suggest regime’s main propaganda broadcaster was also impacted in the strike.
Israeli news website Ynetnews reported:
Unbelievable images came from Tehran Monday evening, where the Iranian state television network, the mouthpiece of the Ayatollahs’ regime, announced that it was under Israeli bombardment. In the live broadcast, the anchor is seen speaking with considerable excitement, until suddenly a loud explosion is heard, blocks of concrete – it seems – fall from the ceiling, and she gets up and runs away.
The Times of Israel reported the details:
The IDF issues an unprecedented evacuation warning for a large section of Iran’s capital, Tehran, ahead of Israeli strikes.“Dear citizens, for your safety, we ask you to immediately leave the mentioned area in District 3 of Tehran,” says the IDF Persian-language spokesman, Master Sgt. (res.) Kamal Penhasi.“In the coming hours, the Israeli army will operate in this area, as it has in recent days throughout Tehran, to strike the Iranian regime’s military infrastructure,” the warning adds.In a vague warning after the military issued the evacuation warning, Defense Minister Israel Katz says, “The Iranian propaganda and incitement mouthpiece is on its way to disappearing.”“Evacuation of nearby residents has begun,” he adds.
An Iranian state TV presenter on live-stream appears to show the impact of the latest Israeli airstrike:
The building housing the regime’s propaganda arm we shown ablaze after a supposed Israeli strike:
According to unconfirmed reports, the IDF was preparing to take all regime propaganda outlets off air.
The order comes hours after IDF Spokesperson, Brigadier General Effie Defrin, declared that Israel had “achieved full aerial superiority over Tehran’s skies.”
As part of the operation ‘Rising Lion,’ Israel eliminated the top intelligence command of the Iranian regime, including the head of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) spying operations, Mohammad Kazemi and his-second-in-command, Mohammad Hassan Mohaqiq, the Israel Defense Force (IDF) confirmed Monday.
The heads of the IRGC-Quds Force’s Intelligence Directorate, Mohsen Bakri, his deputy, Abu al-Fadl Nikouei, and several other senior Iranian intelligence officials were also reportedly killed when Israeli fighter jets struck Iranian intelligence headquarters in central Tehran. The Quds Force is IRGC’s foreign terrorist arm, which props up and directs terrorist group’s such as Lebanese Hezbollah and Yemen-based Houthis.
On Sunday, “IAF fighter jets, following precise IDF intelligence, struck a structure in Tehran where several senior officials from Iranian intelligence organizations were located,” the Israeli military confirmed in a statement Monday morning.
“In the strike, the Head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Intelligence Organization and his deputy, as well as the Head of the Quds Force Intelligence Department and his deputy, were all eliminated,” the IDF statement added.
“These officials played a central role in shaping Iran’s strategic assessments and planning terrorist attacks against Israel, the West, and countries in the Middle East,” the IDF disclosed.
Particularly, IRGC intelligence chief Kazemi, “was responsible for counterintelligence, espionage, and targeting opponents of the Iranian regime within Iran,” the Israeli military said.
Besides targeting Israel and other Western countries, Kazemi ran an oppressive spying network inside Iran. “In his role, oversaw intelligence gathering for terrorist activities and the monitoring of Iranian citizens to suppress dissent and preserve the Iranian regime.”
Kazemi’s right-hands man, Mohaqiq, oversaw terrorist operations aimed at Israel and other countries. “His deputy, Mohammad Hassan Mohaqiq, previously chaired the Strategic Intelligence Department and played a key role in the regime’s terrorist operations against Israel, the West, and countries in the Middle East,” military informed.
Iran arms, trains and finances a vast web of terrorist organizations beyond the Arab and Muslim world.
Regime-run Iranian media admitted the killing of senior intelligence officials, The Times of Israel reported Sunday night:
Iranian state media officially confirms that the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ intelligence chief, Brig. Gen. Mohammad Kazemi and his deputy Hassan Mohaqiq were killed in an Israeli strike today.State media also says a third IRGC intelligence officer, Mohsen Bagheri, was also killed in the strike in Tehran.
The Israeli news website Ynetnews described the Sunday’s strike on the Iranian intelligence headquarters as “one of the most significant blows to Iran’s internal security apparatus since the beginning of Israel’s preemptive Operation Rising Lion.” It is worth noting that the Israeli Air Force nearly wiped out the entire command structure of the IRGC, Iranian army and air forces, as well as top nuclear weapons experts since the preemptive aerial operation began three days ago.
The slain Quds Forces’ intelligence chief and his deputy “were primarily responsible for operational and intelligence support to members of the Iran’s Axis of Terror, including Hezbollah, Hamas, the Houthis, and militias in Iraq,” the military observed.
“The elimination of these senior figures follows the elimination of the Head of the Intelligence Directorate in the Iranian Armed Forces General Staff, who was struck last Friday. This marks a significant blow to the Iranian regime’s intelligence apparatus and its ability to carry out terrorist attacks against the State of Israel,” the IDF statement concluded.
With Iran indiscriminately firing missiles at Israeli towns and cities, the Iron Dome and other air defense systems were successful in intercepting most of them.”The IDF on Monday provided its first statistics of the war on its shoot down success against Iran’s ballistic missiles, setting it at 80-90%, with only about 5-10% of ballistic missiles hitting actual residential areas,” the Jerusalem Post reported.
Overnight, a “total of 65 missiles and dozens of UAVs were launched, most of which were intercepted by our aerial and naval defense systems,” the IDF said in a statement Monday.
At least eight civilians were killed and several others injured in nighttime Iranian strikes. Despite the high-rate of interception by the Israeli air defense systems, Iranian missiles impacted at “four different areas in northern and central Israel. Regrettably, eight civilians were killed, and dozens were injured,” the IDF informed Monday morning.
Meanwhile, Israeli fighter jets carry out large-scale strikes aimed at dismantling regime’s ability to fire ballistic missiles at Israel. “Over fifty fighter jets and aircraft took part, striking and destroying over 120 surface-to-surface missile launchers, amounting to one-third of the launchers in the hands of the Iranian regime,” IDF Spokesperson, Brigadier General Effie Defrin, said Monday.
“These are large launchers, some mounted on trucks and deployed across Iran. Each launcher was ready to fire dozens of missiles at Israel’s home front and strategic assets. These strikes caused the regime to launch only half of the missiles it had planned in last night’s barrage,” he explained.
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