Haifa, Tel Aviv Targeted in Repeated Strikes

Date: 21 June 2025 - 13:38

News ID: ۱۴۰۶۸۸

TEHRAN -- The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) on Saturday issued its 15th statement, declaring that it launched missiles toward Israeli-occupied territories to target Ben Gurion Airport and certain military headquarters.
The IRGC announced that it initiated the 18th phase of True Promise Operation 3, utilizing numerous suicide and combat drones, such as Shahed 136, as well as precision solid-fuel and liquid-fuel missiles.
According to the statement, targets at Ben Gurion Airport and military operational logistics centers were successfully destroyed. The state-of-the-art defense systems of the regime has failed to intercept the Iranian drones, forcing settlers to flee to shelters.
The Israeli regime’s media outlets reported that six out of ten Iranian missiles hit their targets during the latest round of attacks.
On Thursday and Friday, the IRGC announced the launch of a new wave of missiles targeting the Israeli-occupied territories, as part of a large-scale retaliatory operation that involved combined missile and drone attacks on military targets and industrial centers linked to the illegal regime in the cities of Haifa and Tel Aviv.
In a statement, the IRGC stated that over 100 combat and suicide drones were launched against military objectives, particularly targeting Israel’s missile defense systems.
According to the IRGC, a sustained escalation and impact-focused missile campaign against Israel’s military and defense industry remains a top priority.
Israeli media on Friday acknowledged the failure of the regime’s defense systems to intercept the latest wave of Iranian missiles. Channel 12 reported that the Be’er Sheva train station had been shut down due to damages resulting from the missile strike.
Israel’s cyber capital, located in the Gav-Yam Negev Advanced Technologies Park in Be’er Sheva, was also hit. The tech park hosts more than 70 prominent companies, including Intel, Elbit Systems, and Microsoft, with around 3,000 employees active in cybersecurity.
Colonel Iman Tajik, spokesperson for Iran’s retaliatory operations, state that the entire sky over the occupied territories is defenseless, and there will be no safe place left.
An Israeli intelligence official told NBC News that Iran’s use of faster and more precise weaponry has significantly reduced the effectiveness of the regime’s missile interception systems.
The chief of staff of Iran’s Armed Forces said any target belonging to the Zionist aggressor regime will be attacked continuously.
Major General Abdolrahim Mousavi praised the “precise and crushing” responses of Iran, stating, “We see no limits ahead of us.”
Meanwhile, a veteran Iranian military official and politician said the Israeli regime made a serious miscalculation by attacking Iran and is now finding itself in crisis under deadly strikes.
The Israeli regime had assumed that by eliminating a number of top Iranian military commanders, it would cripple military decision-making in Iran, Mohsen Rezaei, a former chief commander of the IRGC and now a member of the Expediency Council, said in a televised interview.
“But that did not come to pass; and under the command of the Supreme Leader, all activities proceeded with strength,” Rezaei said.
“The Israelis thought that they had targeted Lebanon and Syria and that they somehow had aerial superiority. They had confidence in their cyber capabilities and in their infiltration of Iran. They thought that by martyring [Hamas chief Ismail] Haniyeh and Iran’s nuclear scientists, they were going to have an easy job ahead. The regime also had full confidence in its defense systems, such as ‘Iron Dome,’ which you saw what Iran’s military might brought upon it,” he said.
In the punitive strikes that Iran began on Israel, victories were achieved, the biggest of which was that Iran became the first country to successfully foil Israeli calculations and prevent the Tel Aviv regime from reaching its objectives, he said.
“Israel’s calculations turned out to be right with countries including Egypt, Syria, Jordan, and any country that it attacked — not with Iran, though,” he said.