{"id":21936,"date":"2026-03-16T15:49:27","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T15:49:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/21936\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T15:49:27","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T15:49:27","slug":"israel-says-strike-in-tehran-targeted-irans-anti-satellite-programme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/21936\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel says strike in Tehran targeted Iran&#8217;s anti-satellite programme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Israeli military said on Monday its jets struck and destroyed a facility in Tehran used by Iran to develop capabilities for attacking satellites in space.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said the site was used by the Iranian government to develop technologies that could target satellites, posing &#8220;a threat to the State of Israel&#8217;s satellites and to space assets of other countries around the world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Tehran has said its space programme is not pursuing any military objectives. But the programme is effectively controlled by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, raising international doubts about those claims.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Israeli military accused Iran of investing &#8220;significant resources in developing its space warfare capabilities.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The IDF said the targeted facility was also involved in developing the Chamran 1 satellite, which Iran launched into orbit in September 2024. Iran has said the satellite was intended for scientific research purposes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Islamic Republic has launched several satellites in recent years, saying the missions are designed to collect data on weather, natural disasters and agriculture.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Rows of destroyed seating are visible among the debris of the Azadi Sports Complex indoor arena in Tehran, following a wave of strikes by the United States and Israel that left the venue in destruction. Stringer\/dpa\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/4005e4f5ad9072eac0f9ce35eaa69b52.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Rows of destroyed seating are visible among the debris of the Azadi Sports Complex indoor arena in Tehran, following a wave of strikes by the United States and Israel that left the venue in destruction. Stringer\/dpa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Israeli military said on Monday its jets struck and destroyed a facility in Tehran used by Iran&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21937,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[10753,34,46,37,72,10750,10751,10752,5493,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-21936","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tehran","8":"tag-azadi-sports-complex","9":"tag-iran","10":"tag-islamic-revolutionary-guard-corps","11":"tag-israel","12":"tag-israeli-military","13":"tag-satellites-in-space","14":"tag-space-programme","15":"tag-space-warfare","16":"tag-state-of-israel","17":"tag-tehran"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116239648088206883","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}