Strikes Across IRGC Sites in Tehran
Mission Brief: June 23, 205
Ballistic missile sirens have been blaring all morning in Israel.
It’s surreal to even write this.
The people of Israel want to do what people around the world want to do; to go to work, come home, spend time with their loved ones, watch something on Netflix, and go to sleep.
Instead, we have spent the past year and eight months becoming experts at finding bomb shelters. We have air raid siren apps installed next to food delivery apps like Wolt. We follow influencers on Tik Tok and enemy leaders who threaten our existence on Telegram.
But we are in the right. And we draw resolve from that.
In this issue of Mission Brief:
The journey to IDF aerial superiority in Iran
Key strikes on Iranian military targets
Revealing a new component in our defense against UAVs
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Aerial Superiority
After contending with Iranian proxies closer to Israel, the strikes on Iranian nuclear weapon facilities and the ballistic missile capabilities introduced another challenge - operating over 1000 miles away from Israel, while facing extensive Iranian aerial defense measures.
Much of the initial efforts in the first ten minutes of the operation relied on a concentrated effort to clear out these defenses. Further operations ensured that by June 14, just 36 hours after the operation started, the IDF was able to declare that Aerial Superiority From Western Iran to Tehran.
But these efforts continue.
Iran’s Air Force
In one example, yesterday, IDF forces struck six Iranian regime airports in western, eastern, and central Iran. Six military airports. The farthest one of them is over 2,300 kilometers - 1,500 miles - away from Tel Aviv.
These strikes targeted runways, underground hangars, a refueling aircraft, and Iranian regime F-14, F-5, and AH-1 aircraft.
The IAF impaired takeoff capabilities from these airports, as well as the Iranian military’s ability to operate its air force from them.
This isn’t the first strike on aerial assets either; on June 18, the IAF identified and struck five Iranian AH-1 attack helicopters that were at a military base in the Kermanshah area.
Speaking about the Iranian air defense in a press conference today, my commander, IDF Spokesperson, BG Effie Defrin, said the following:
I want to say something here, and I want to say it with humility. Our Air Force has dealt a significant blow to the Iranian Air Force. At the start of the operation, we targeted and struck Amir Ali Hajizadeh, the commander of the IRGC Air Force. He was a highly influential figure in the Iranian regime and was behind much of the terrorism and spread of evil across the Middle East — and especially against Israel.
In addition, since the beginning of the operation, our Air Force has been striking various Iranian Air Force targets. It’s important to say that, for us, the goal isn’t the end in itself — it’s the means to achieve our objective: securing air superiority in the skies of Iran. And that is happening.”
Read more about the opening salvo and the elimination of Amir Ali Hajizadeh here.
Striking Key Targets in Tehran
Freedom of action in the skies of Tehran is being taken advantage of. Extensively.
Just a few hours ago, over 50 Israeli Air Force fighter jets struck military targets in Tehran. Acting on intelligence supplied by the IDF Intelligence Directorate, the aircraft targeted Iranian military command centers, missile and radar production sites and missile storage infrastructure in Tehran.
Continuing the ongoing strikes on military nuclear capabilities, IDF aircraft also targeted strikes on access roads to the nuclear enrichment site in Fordow to limit access to what remains at the site.
Fighting Fake News
A few days ago during a Sky News interview, an air raid siren went office.
What happened then is a textbook example of misinformation, with many rumors online of me running from an interviewer’s question. I’ve trained to take interviewer questions; I have yet to undergo sufficient training to allow me to take a hit from a 500 kilogram warhead on a ballistic missile that just traveled 1,500 kilometers.
Here’s a breakdown of how it went down
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Defending Everywhere
Much has been said about Israel’s aerial missile defense. As much has been said about our “missile hunting” - targeting Iran’s entire ballistic missile program supply chain. But one part of the operation that has been less publicized is the different ways that we defend our skies.
Today we revealed that over the past few days, soldiers from the Spectrum Warfare 5114th Battalion in the the J6 and Cyber Defense Directorate - both men and women - stopped dozens of attempted hostile UAV infiltrations with electronic warfare.
This activity constitutes yet another layer of defense leveraging advanced technological means to detect and neutralize aerial threats in real time.
As their commander shared:
Every UAV we manage to stop helps protect our civilians, our residents, and our strategic assets. We will continue to operate at all times to protect the residents of the country.”
Thanks for reading.
LTC Nadav Shoshani
Israel Defense Forces Spokesperson
Even though 70+% of all Americans are strongly in support of Israel and especially of President Trump's actions against the nuclear enrichment facilities in Iran you will hear very little if anything positive about that in the American legacy media. They and all of the Gang of 535 (Congress & Senate) are against anything to do with either Israel or President Trump. The Republican politicians talk a lot and say nothing and they do nothing positive. The Demonrats talk constantly and say absolutely nothing of value and everything that they do is negative and extremely harmful to the US.
4 Even though I walk
through the darkest valley,[a]
I will fear no evil,
for you are with me;
your rod and your staff,
they comfort me.
Psalm 23