Iran's South Pars gas field targeted by Israeli airstrikes - IRGC outlet

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.

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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.

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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.

The Israeli military said more than 70 fighter jets took part in a wide-scale overnight operation over Tehran, striking dozens of sites including Iranian air defense systems, in what it described as its deepest incursion into Iranian territory to date.

Israel Defense Forces (IDF) spokesman Brigadier General Effie Defrin said the operation, which lasted approximately two and a half hours, targeted around 40 sites in and around the Iranian capital.

“The dozens of aircraft are flying freely over Tehran, thanks to the opening blow that removed the threat of Iranian air defense systems,” Defrin said.

“Tehran is no longer immune; the capital is exposed to Israeli strikes,” he said.

Iran has cancelled planned negotiations with the United States that were due to take place in Oman on Sunday, sources told Iran International.

According to people familiar with the matter, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi informed his Omani counterpart — who had been mediating the indirect talks — that Tehran would not proceed with the discussions under current circumstances.

Also on Saturday, Araghchi told European Union foreign policy chief Kaya Kallas that continuing negotiations with the United States is unjustifiable as long as Israeli attacks persist.

The cancellation follows Araghchi’s public criticism of Washington’s silence over Israel’s recent attacks on Iranian territory.

There was no immediate comment from US officials or Omani mediators.