The Israeli military announced on Monday a wave of attacks against “regime infrastructure” in central Iran, the first since the appointment of the new leader in the Islamic Republic.
Israeli forces have “begun an additional wave of attacks against the infrastructure of the Iranian terror regime in central Iran,” the military said in a brief statement.
Shortly before, he had announced attacks against the pro-Iran Hezbollah movement in Lebanon.
Early in the morning, they announced another offensive hours after a round of attacks in which the Israeli Army claimed to have bombed the headquarters of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Air Force, from which ballistic missiles and drone fleets are operated.
In that statement, it reported that on Sunday its air force hit 400 Iranian military targets in western and central Iran, including ballistic missile launchers and weapons production plants.
It also attacked fuel depots in Tehran and nearby areas for the first time, causing at least four deaths, forcing gasoline to be rationed to 20 liters per person per day and leaving the Iranian capital enveloped in a toxic cloud, a mixture of rain and smoke.
On the other hand, the number of deaths due to the intense Israeli air offensive against Lebanon reaches 394, including 83 children, and the number of injured 1,130, according to data released on Sunday by the Lebanese Minister of Public Health, Rakan Nasreddine.
For a week now, Israel has been carrying out an air campaign against the south and east of Lebanon, as well as in the suburbs of the capital, which has already left 112,000 displaced people in official shelters, although it is estimated that the total number of people who have had to leave their homes would reach at least 200,000.
For its part, the Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah continues to launch limited impact attacks against military targets in the north of the Hebrew State.
Iran appoints its new supreme guide
Dozens of people gathered on Monday in a central square in the Iranian capital to show loyalty to the new supreme guide of the Islamic republic, Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, AFP journalists reported.
The crowd, gathered in Tehran’s Enghelab Square, waved Iranian flags and portraits of the new leader, son of the late supreme guide Ali Khamenei, who was killed in the Israeli-American attacks on February 28.
Mojtaba Khamenei was appointed on Sunday as his father’s successor by the Assembly of Experts of the Iranian clerical government.
Previously, the United States and Israel had warned that they would oppose his appointment.
The 56-year-old cleric “is appointed and presented as the third guide of the sacred system of the Islamic Republic of Iran, on the basis of a decisive vote of the respected members of the Assembly of Experts,” that body announced in a statement.
NATO shoots down missile fired from Iran
NATO defense systems intercepted a ballistic missile fired from Iran in Turkish airspace, in the second incident of this type in five days, the Turkish Defense Ministry reported on Monday.
“NATO air and missile defense assets in the eastern Mediterranean neutralized a ballistic missile launched from Iran that entered Turkish airspace,” the ministry said in a statement.
Some fragments fell in a depopulated area of the southern province of Gaziantep, without causing injuries, the source added.
