Israel strikes iran guards sites evin prison in tehran and fordo facility

Israel strikes iran guards sites evin prison in tehran and fordo facility

Israel attacks ‘regime targets’ with ‘unprecedented force’, adding to speculation that it may seek to topple Iran’s clerical leadership; Putin, after meeting Araghchi, slams the strikes by U.S. and Israel on Iran but does not offer concrete support.

Israel hit Revolutionary Guard sites and the notorious Evin prison in Tehran on Monday, calling them its most powerful strikes yet on the Iranian capital on the 11th day of the war.

Iran, in turn, fired missile barrages at Israel on the same day.

Loud explosions rocked the Iranian capital, where Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz said the military hit “regime targets” with “unprecedented force”, adding to speculation that Israel may seek to topple Iran’s clerical leadership.

The targets included Evin prison, which Mr. Katz said “holds political prisoners and regime opponents”, as well as command centres of the domestic Basij militia and the powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps of the Islamic Republic.

Iranian media and the Israeli military said Israel also struck Fordo, a key nuclear enrichment facility buried deep in the mountains south of Tehran.

The military said it had struck Fordo on Monday “in order to obstruct access routes” to the site, which Israel’s ally the United States hit the previous day with “bunker buster” bombs.

President Donald Trump boasted Sunday’s U.S. strikes had “obliterated” Iran’s nuclear capabilities, but other officials said it was too soon to assess the impact on Iran’s nuclear programme, which Israel and some Western states consider an existential threat.

Power outage

Sirens sounded across Israel on Monday blasts were heard over Jerusalem.

Iranian media said Israel’s strikes hit a power supply system in Tehran, triggering temporary outages.

In Israel, the national electricity company reported “damage near a strategic infrastructure facility” in the south that disrupted power supply, without naming the location or specifying the cause.

Some details of the damage in Israel are barred from publication due to military censorship rules.

Meanwhile, Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday slammed attacks on Iran as “unprovoked” and “unjustified” in a meeting with Tehran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, but did not announce any concrete support to his key ally in West Asia.