Illustrative image. (U.S. Central Command)
The United States and Israel are targeting facilities linked to Iran’s missile and drone program in an attempt to cripple the production of such weapons.
Photos released by the Central Command (CENTCOM) on March 19 showed massive destruction at the Karaj Surface-to-Surface Missile Plant in western Iran. The command said that the facility was used to “assemble ballistic missiles that threatened Americans, neighboring countries, and commercial shipping.”
One of the photos dated March 1, shows the plant prior to U.S. strikes. The other dated March 11, shows the same location after U.S. forces struck the facility with “precision munitions,” according to CENTCOM.
Other photos showing destruction at the Esfahan Khomeynishahr Drone Production Plant in central Iran were released by CENTCOM on March 20. The facility “produced Shahed one-way attack drones that have been used by the Iranian regime to attack targets across the region,” the command said.
It added that the photos, dated March 3, and March 12, show the site before and after a” barrage of U.S. precision weapons strikes,” describing the attack as “another major blow to Iran’s defense industrial base.”
Click to see full-size image. (U.S. Central Command)
Also on March 20, CENTCOM shared footage showing a series of strikes on Hajjiabad base, a significant underground military complex in southern Iran primarily serving as a hardened “missile city” and air base.
Separately, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) announced on March 20 that strikes hit dozens of Iranian military sites in two waves of airstrikes in the capital, Tehran, and the center of the Islamic Republic overnight and in the morning.
In Tehran, the IDF said that it struck several weapon factories, along with sites used to develop components for ballistic missiles.
East of Tehran, strikes hit facilities where ballistic missiles were being stored, while Iranian soldiers were operating there, the military added.
The IDF also said that in recent days it has identified that Iran is firing ballistic missiles at Israel from the center of the Islamic Republic, after the military “degraded most of the regime’s capabilities to launch from western Iran.”
The latest strikes shows that both the U.S. and Israel are now attempting to cripple the production of missiles and drones in Iran, possibly because they have very much failed to completely stop the launch of such weapons from the Islamic Republic.
Speaking from Jerusalem on March 19 at his first in-person press conference since the launch of the American-Israeli war on Iran, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that “After 20 days, I can tell you — Iran today has no ability to enrich uranium, and no ability to produce ballistic missiles.”
Responding, a spokesman for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps insisted on March 20 that the Islamic Republic is still manufacturing missiles
Referencing how Iranian schools consider a 20 as a perfect score, Gen. Ali Mohammad Naeini told the state-run IRAN newspaper, “Our missile industry score is 20 and there is no concern in this regard because we are producing missiles even during war conditions, which is amazing, and there is no particular problem in stockpiling.”
“These people expect the war to continue until the enemy is completely exhausted,” the general said of the Iranian public. “This war must end when the shadow of war is lifted from the country.”
All in all, the war is clearly entering a new phase where endurance is the main element. Iran has succeeded in maintaining its ability to launch missiles and drones, and if it manages to replicate this success in the production of such weapons, it will be in a position to come out on top from a long war with the U.S. and Israel.
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the outlines of iran’s map are very similar to the former yugoslavia’s, the unity of iranian people gives me optimism about iran’s future and independence though. surely that was a byte too big for a us-israel behemoth to chew through, hopefully there is a bone inside of it
scottie said it “all these facilities are empty”
these idiots are just dumb, isn’t it obvious the iranian military war factories are under ground.. these fools loss the war and they refuse to accept defeat.
what do you expect by a department run by pete egg set? :d
the jews know exactly what they are doing they started this war they wanted this war they want the whole world to burn while they can continue to steal palestinian and arab land. its time we take the fight to them and teach these parasites a lesson. world wide everyone needs to stop doing the jews bidding. and start to fight back against shabbosgoy politicians who are doing their bidding. its time to remove the jewish parasite from our society.
you can do thing, scratch i.r.iran’s missile factories.
they are empty buildings. where are the workers cars, the trucks bringing in resources and shipping out product? where are the people in the yard moving things around? no, whatever this was, it was abandoned at wars start.
hey èstòopìdòs rùskìè amateurs. watch & learn how the pros fight & win wars. iran is +3 times bigger than ucrania. we already destroyed all their navy, airforce, enrichment sites, missile, armaments industries & ports. the only reason why kharg island & 90% of their oil exports is still in 1 piece is because we deem it so. when we’re done with iran & take their oil/gas, we’re coming after your pathetic 3rd world gas station economy full force.
“we have defeated iran 100 times already” – some jew ameriikunt spokesman…
the americun jew frontman needs to be removed for treason. all these aipac funded politicians are hostile foreign agents the only solution is to put them under the ground and end aipac forever!
get a load of this. according to cnbc: trump says he doesn’t want iran war ceasefire, but is considering ‘winding down’ military ops.
according to cnn: us removes sanctions on 140 million barrels of iranian oil as trump seeks to lower gas prices.
looks like trampy and kegseth getting verry scared.
extreme anu5 penetration of iran!!!
heheheh
joe kent should tell the truth:
i did not want to participate in satanic gay orgies, kill children on the altar of moloch, sacrifice red heifers, eat children, drink the blood of little boys, and rape and strangle girls on the altar of baal.
after epstein’s death, dump is the high priest of moloch and that’s why taxpayers have always bailed him out of bankruptcy and that’s why he was elected president of the united states so he wouldn’t go to jail for his thieving.”
the iranians is of course idiots because the greeks already destroyed them, when the greeks fought the persians, the iranians were persians and the greeks tricked them with ships that traveled on land. maybe the greeks invented some kind of precursor to the tracked tank.the soldiers showed one tracked tank to little girls in elementary school.one girl destroyed my fence and plum tree. i will demand compensation from the army because i have everything recorded on a security camera.
and yet if you look at history, the greek states like sparta are now long gone, and persia is still here.
vamos irán 🇮🇷♥️
we are going full steam ahead all the way to kharg island, and then all the way to bushehr and then were going to ishafan and then to arak and the to qom and then all the way to tehran.
yee haaaa!
kharg island also know as the us bay of pigs mk 2.
we must realize that russia is a traitorous country. i hope that newsom shakes hands with xi jinping and at the same time carpet bombs moscow.
only then will the traitorous russians see what they have done to iran, venezuela, armenia, serbia and syria. i hope that the carpet bombs will be so large and densely woven that not one of the traitorous alawites who betrayed syria and fled to russia will survive the carpet bombs will laid across moscow.
you have a fetish for the alawites.
americunts all aspire to swallow jizz in tel aviv gay bar
yesterday bibi pumped my anuz w superior hebrew jizz while i was licking smotrich deek
if you look closely at the after photographs, you’d see that there isn’t anything inside the buildings, so they just blew up an empty building.
slava bibi!
its time turks do what ever it takes to force their government to stop sending oil from azerbaijan to israel. only if you cut the oil supply to israel the kikes and their war machine will grind to a halt. ending the war happens the quickest is turks stop being shabbos goy jew helpers and stop the flow of oil to israel.
azerbaijans aliyev he is a israeli frontman he needs to be removed and eliminated.
very good i like it