{"id":6789,"date":"2026-03-06T15:36:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T15:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/6789\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T15:36:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T15:36:07","slug":"idf-launches-15th-wave-of-iran-strikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/6789\/","title":{"rendered":"IDF launches 15th wave of Iran strikes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It noted that it had struck infrastructure belonging to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/iran-news\/article-889100\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Islamic regime<\/a> in Tehran and Isfahan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Concurrently with the IDF&#8217;s announcement, Iran&#8217;s semi-official Tasnim News Agency reported that targets in the city of Qom, south of Tehran, had also been hit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">An hour after the Israeli military&#8217;s confirmation of the commencement of its newest round of strikes, it stated that, during its strikes in Tehran, it had targeted &#8220;a senior Iranian terror regime commander in Tehran,&#8221; without naming the commander.<\/p>\n<p>The military&#8217;s announcements came hours after it had confirmed striking former Iranian supreme leader <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/defense-news\/article-889081\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ali Khamenei<\/a>\u2019s underground bunker in Tehran.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">The earlier strikes, which involved some 50 aircraft, targeted the bunker, which, according to the IDF, was located beneath the regime leadership&#8217;s Tehran compound.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Although Khamenei himself was killed nearly a week prior, the IDF noted that the bunker was intended to be used as &#8220;a secure emergency command center&#8221; and &#8220;continued to be used by senior Iranian regime officials.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/article-889056\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">IDF<\/a> went on to assert that it had been one of the Iranian regime&#8217;s most critical military command centers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">While the initial military statement did not note if any senior Iranian officials were killed in the action, in a later press briefing, IDF spokesperson Brigadier General Effie Defrin said that the military was &#8220;examining the results of the attack.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It noted that it had struck infrastructure belonging to the Islamic regime in Tehran and Isfahan. Concurrently with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6790,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[89,423,34,707,393,92,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-6789","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tehran","8":"tag-ayatollah-ali-khamenei","9":"tag-idf","10":"tag-iran","11":"tag-islamic-regime","12":"tag-islamic-republic","13":"tag-operation-roaring-lion","14":"tag-tehran"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116182973483303384","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6789","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=6789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}