Iran Pummels Mossad Unit, Aman With New Missile
TEL AVIV (Dispatches) -- Iranian ballistic missiles targeted Israeli military intelligence Unit 8200 at the Glilot base near Tel Aviv on Tuesday, Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) announced – as part of the ninth phase of Operation True Promise 3.
“In the early hours of today, Tuesday, June 17, IRGC Aerospace Force fighters, in an impact-oriented operation, despite the presence of highly advanced defense systems, struck the Zionist regime’s military intelligence center known as Aman and the center for planning terror operations and evils of the Zionist regime (Mossad) in Tel Aviv, and this center is currently burning,” the IRGC said in a statement.
Several impacts were made in the Herzliya area in the Tel Aviv district. A bus was set ablaze and an eight-story building was damaged, according to Hebrew news site Ynet.
Video footage captured the moment several missiles impacted the area, causing large explosions.
Israeli media reported that military censorship has imposed a blackout on the location impacted by Iranian missiles in the Glilot area, a suburb of Tel Aviv previously targeted by Hezbollah.
The Glilot area houses the headquarters of Mossad, as well as several other key Israeli intelligence units, including Unit 8200 – also referred to as Aman.
Hebrew reports also said a warehouse or logistical facility used by Unit 8200 was targeted.
“Unit 8200 building collapsed and burning in Herzliya. Israeli military intelligence administration has been hit in the IRGC attack. The last four waves of silent strikes were dangerous, as all targets were intelligence buildings. It now appears that many of these were exposed,” Iran Screenshot wrote on X.
Online users geolocated the impact sites in the Glilot area using satellite imagery and visual markers from footage taken shortly after the strikes. The coordinates indicate that multiple missiles landed in close proximity to the Mossad facilities.
Earlier, Iranian missile strikes reduced the renowned Weizmann Institute of Science, located in the city of Rehovot south of Tel Aviv, to smoldering ruins.
Once a pillar of the Zionist regime’s scientific and military collaboration, the institute with close links to Mossad, now stands dysfunctional and devastated.
Long considered one of the most prominent scientific powerhouses of the Israeli regime, the Weizmann Institute maintained deep ties with both the Israeli military and the Mossad intelligence agency.
Its partnership extended to Elbit Systems, the regime’s leading weapons manufacturer with branches across the U.S., the UK, and beyond.
According to Israeli media, the precision strike — launched early Saturday — was “far from accidental.” It targeted a hub of cutting-edge research tied to the regime’s military-industrial complex, including fields such as physics, biotechnology, and artificial intelligence.
The destruction was described by Israeli experts as “catastrophic.”
Laboratories and entire buildings lie in ruins. Sensitive instruments, rare biological materials, and decades of pioneering research have been obliterated. What once represented the scientific pride of the regime has now been reduced to ashes and debris, experts admitted.
Images circulating in the aftermath showed scorched structures, windows blown out, tangled wires hanging from collapsed ceilings, and firefighting floods turning the institute’s courtyards into pools of ruin.
The true magnitude of the strike began to emerge as shell-shocked scientists and researchers came forward to speak of their massive and irreversible losses.
“In under 15 minutes, I saw images of a fire consuming the lab that has been my second home for 22 years. Three entire floors collapsed. Nothing is left — no data, no images, no notes, no history,” said Professor Eldad Tzahor, describing the obliteration of his laboratory.
Tzahor emphasized the magnitude of the loss, saying it was just about the equipment, but the destruction of a scientific archive tied to the Zionist regime’s technological ambitions.
Among the hardest-hit was the computer science department, where the lab of Professor Eran Segal — a global leader in AI-driven medical research — was completely annihilated.
His 50-member team scrambled to recover thousands of vital biological samples from ultra-cold freezers, but flooding rendered most of them irretrievably damaged.
Equipment worth millions is now considered beyond repair.
“It’s not just expensive devices that are gone. It’s decades of accumulated expertise and finely calibrated scientific systems — generations of research, vanished,” said Professor Sharieal Fleishman of the Department of Biochemistry.
Veteran researcher Professor Oren Schuldiner painted a haunting picture: “It’s as if our lab evaporated. Years of work — unique DNA libraries, stem cells, genetically engineered fly strains — all disappeared in an instant. This was the product of countless sleepless nights by our students.”
In a moment of grave introspection, Schuldiner raised questions about the Zionist entity’s future amid Iranian retaliatory operations: “This isn’t just about Iran. It’s also about the deep uncertainty surrounding Israel’s future.”
Israel has imposed strict media censorship, prohibiting the publication of information and footage relating to Iranian ballistic missile impact sites.
The IRGC announced that it had launched the ninth phase of Operation True Promise 3 in response to a brutal U.S.-backed war launched by Israel against Iran.
It said it is planning to intensify its strikes against Israel in the coming hours.
Iran’s defense ministry spokesman Reza Talayi-Nik said Iran used a new missile system for the first time in its retaliatory operations on Tuesday.
“Today, we used one of our missiles for the first time, and the Zionist regime didn’t even realize it had been deployed. They will see more of these surprises,” he said.
In a televised interview on national broadcaster IRIB, Talayi-Nik said, “Our nation is facing an imposed war, and the enemy is targeting the strength and resilience of every segment of our people.”
“We are firmly in a defensive position, but we are utilizing all our offensive and defensive capabilities. The trenches of our defense front are broad, and people from all walks of life are involved,” he said.
Talayi-Nik said the Israeli regime lacks the capacity to endure a prolonged war against the Islamic Republic of Iran. “The enemy cannot sustain a long war, and as it continues, the back of the Zionist regime will be broken.”
After receiving heavy blows in the previous eight phases of the operation, the Israeli regime’s authorities on Tuesday banned the live broadcast of the Iranian operations.
Recent ballistic missile attacks on Israel have caused unprecedented destruction across Tel Aviv and Haifa. Dozens have been killed and hundreds injured.
Iranian drones have also continuously infiltrated Israeli airspace over the past several hours.