Two days after the American strike on three Iranian nuclear sites at Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan, there was no let-up by Israel in its war against Iran. A series of attacks across Tehran killed hundreds of Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) members, struck Basij headquarters, and hit Evin Prison, the notorious torture-chamber of the regime, and a malign symbol of its power. Across the country, the IDF demonstrated its complete mastery of the skies, even hitting targets in the city of Mashhad, in the far northeast of the country. The IDF also hit the headquarters of Tharallah, a part of the IRGC that is entrusted with defending Tehran. Finally, the IDF hit six airbases spread across the country, destroying dozens of planes, rendering runways temporarily unusable, and destroying underground bunkers. More on the targets Israel hit on June 23 can be found here: “Israel kills hundreds of IRGC members in strikes on Tehran’s Basij, Alborz forces,” by Amichai Stein and Keshet Neev, Jerusalem Post, June 23, 2025:
Hundreds of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) members were killed by Israeli strikes across Tehran on Monday, an Israeli official told The Jerusalem Post.
“Over 50 fighter jets” targeted and struck “military command centers belonging to the Iranian regime. The sites struck included missile and radar production sites and missile storage infrastructure in Tehran,” the IDF later confirmed.
During the strikes, Israel targeted various locations in Tehran, which included the Basij headquarters and Evin Prison.
The Basij is a paramilitary militia part of the IRGC. The United States designated both the IRGC and Basij terrorist entities.
IDF targets Iranian internal security forces across Tehran
The Alborz Corps, responsible for the security of several cities in the Tehran District, was also struck, the IDF said. The IDF added that various parts of the Iranian regime’s military forces were hit, along with assets belonging to the Internal Security Forces and the IRGC.
The IDF also struck the Tharallah headquarters, which is a command within the IRGC and responsible for defending Tehran against security threats, Israel’s military added.
The waves of Israeli strikes started following Iran’s multiple barrages of missiles directed at Israel, which impacted various areas across the country, including a strategic electric infrastructure facility in southern Israel.
Defense Minister Israel Katz stated earlier on Monday that “for every shot fired at the Israeli home front, the Iranian dictator will be punished, and the strikes will continue with full force.”
Israel strikes Fordow
The access points of Iran’s Fordow nuclear facility were also targeted in an Israeli attack on Monday, the IDF later confirmed….
There is general agreement that Fordow suffered grievous damage from the American strike, but not that its enrichment facilities were, as President Trump claimed,”totally obliterated.” The IDF therefore continued on Monday to strike the facility, hitting roads to the site, as well as points of entry and exit, so as to prevent the Iranians from accessing the site and possibly retrieving any enriched uranium that managed to survive the American attack.
It’s yet one more astonishing feat by the IDF: in just one day, it managed to kill hundreds of IRGC fighters, destroyed the Basij headquarters, the Tharallah headquarters, and Evin Prison in Tehran; it destroyed more ballistic missile launch and storage sites in western Iran, and severely damaged six major airbases across the country, from Kermanshah in the west to Mashhad in the east, and destroyed planes, including F-14s,F-5s, and AH-1s, that were sitting ducks on their tarmacs or in bunkers.
Israel now rules the skies over Iran. And the IDF is taking full advantage of that state of affairs. How many more days of such destruction like that which was inflicted by the IDF on June 23 can the Iran regime endure? A few weeks? A month? As Iran’s military continues to be disassembled by the IDF, day after day, when will the people of Iran — who right now, after the American raid, are in a rally-round-the-flag mood which will not last — decide to throw off their tormentors and come to terms with the Americans and the Israelis whose leaders have repeatedly explained that they do not wish the people of Iran ill? The regime, of course, is another story.
Joseph Askew says
Go Israel, Jesus is your Messiah.
Kosh's Shadow says
Making it easier for the Iranians to take their country back
Proud American says
I don’t think the people, writ large, are in a rally around the flag mood. I think it’s more just the 20% who are regime supporters whom the state media wants the world to see.
Wellington says
Here’s a horrible thought: The world as it is minus two factors: the IDF and the American military.
If one does not acknowledge (and so many wouldn’t out of either ignorance or outright malevolence) that mankind presently minus the IDF and the American military (and the latter presently led by a real Commander-in-Chief rather than putrid excuses for such like Obama and, even worse, Biden) would be an infinitely far worse off world, well then that person is deficient, only the amount to which and the indefensible reasons why functioning as variables.
Mankind and civilization so many times has hung by a thread. Winston Churchill becoming Prime Minister in May of 1940 replacing the utterly woeful and inept Neville Chamberlain serves as one example. Two other rather obscure but still accurate ones are Charlemagne ascending the throne of the Frankish realm in 768 AD and Alfred the Great becoming King of Wessex in 871 AD.
And here is yet another example of the best of man barely escaping Armageddon, to wit, the utter nothing who is Kamala Harris winning the Presidency over Donald Trump last November.
Oh yeah, close calls. No doubt. No doubt whatsoever. And herein I rest my case.
James Lincoln says
Wellington says,
“Mankind and civilization so many times has hung by a thread.”
I have had that same exact thought many times.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
They also demolished a Teheran landmark called the Doomsday clock, which counts down to the destruction of Israel, supposedly in 2040
I wish they had demolished the mausoleum of Ayatollah Khomenei outside Teheran. That would have been more demoralizing to the islamic regime. Also, despite the ceasefire, Mossad, since it operates secretly, should continue to enable Iranian opposition to destroy regime targets, and attempt a regime change
OLD GUY says
Mossad has to protect Israel, as long as Islam rule is in the Middle East Israel will be at a high risk of attacks.