Air defenses of Iranian petrochemical complex targeted by airstrikes

Israeli warplanes would soon fly over Tehran and strike all key targets of Iran's clerical establishment, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Saturday.

“We will strike every site and every target of the Ayatollahs’ regime,” Netanyahu said in a recorded statement.

Netanyahu added that Iran was in a late-stage push to develop nuclear weapons. “We were at the 90th minute. There was a race by Iran’s nuclear teams to create nuclear bombs—atomic bombs for Israel’s destruction.”

The Israeli leader framed the campaign as a bid to eliminate both nuclear and ballistic threats from Iran.

Iran’s parliament security committee said it has urged officials to curb UN nuclear inspections and expel non-safeguards IAEA monitors.

“Negotiations are meaningless under current conditions,” the spokesman said, calling for action against those responsible for Israel’s recent attacks.

Three Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps members were killed in an Israeli strike on the Zarandiyeh Basij base on Saturday, Iran’s Tasnim news agency said,

“Following the brutal attack by the Zionist regime on the Zarandiyeh Basij base, three members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps were killed,” Tasnim quoted the Guards as saying.

A ballistic missile launcher in western Iran that was prepared to fire was targeted and destroyed, the Israeli Defense Force said.

It released footage of the strike, saying dozens of air defense systems were hit overnight and aerial superiority established from western Iran to Tehran.

Israeli drone strike killed two officers in Hamedan province on Friday, Iranian media said as the attacks on the Islamic Republic entered a second day.

“Police chief Major Habibollah Akbarian and Lieutenant Amir Hossein Seifi were martyred,” ISNA reported Saturday.