{"id":24673,"date":"2026-03-18T08:18:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T08:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/24673\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T08:18:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T08:18:07","slug":"idf-strikes-irgc-headquarters-iranian-air-defense-systems-in-newest-wave-of-tehran-strikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/24673\/","title":{"rendered":"IDF strikes IRGC headquarters, Iranian air defense systems in newest wave of Tehran strikes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Among the sites targeted were the IRGC Security Unit’s headquarters, a General Logistics and Support Department of Internal Security Forces maintenance center, and a missile array command center.<\/p>\n

The IDF completed a round of strikes across Tehran<\/a> on Tuesday, including against several command centers used by the regime’s security forces, the military announced on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Among the sites targeted were the IRGC<\/a> Security Unit’s headquarters, a General Logistics and Support Department of Internal Security Forces maintenance center, and a ballistic missile array command center.<\/p>\n

Several air defense systems were also destroyed, the IDF said, explaining that “the completed strikes are part of a phase aimed at further deepening the damage to the core systems and foundations of the Iranian terror regime.”<\/p>\n

\"Iranian<\/p>\n

Iranian security chief Ali Larijani takes part in a pro-government rally in Tehran, Iran, March 13, 2026 (credit: Ali Larijani via X\/via REUTERS)<\/p>\n

Ali Larijani, Basij head Soleimani, killed by IDF<\/p>\n

Iran\u2019s Supreme National Security Council secretary Ali Larijani<\/a> was killed in a targeted Israeli airstrike in Iran overnight on Tuesday, the IDF and Defense Minister Israel Katz confirmed.<\/p>\n

The IDF also confirmed it had assassinated Gholamreza Soleimani, head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Basij<\/a> paramilitary militia, and his deputy, Seyyed Karishi.<\/p>\n

The two were killed in a makeshift tent area, which had been set up to make it harder to follow them than if they had been based in their headquarters.<\/p>\n

Yonah Jeremy Bob and Amichai Stein contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Among the sites targeted were the IRGC Security Unit’s headquarters, a General Logistics and Support Department of Internal…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24674,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[773,11891,11892,423,11890,34,424,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-24673","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tehran","8":"tag-ali-larijani","9":"tag-general-logistics","10":"tag-headquarters","11":"tag-idf","12":"tag-internal-security-forces","13":"tag-iran","14":"tag-irgc","15":"tag-tehran"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116249198682492700","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24673","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=24673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24673\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}