According to the Israeli military, its “fighter jets completed a series of strikes on military targets in western Iran” on Wednesday.
According to their statement, “about 25 fighter jets hit more than 40 missile infrastructure elements aimed at the State of Israel, including missile storage facilities and Iranian Regime military personnel.”
They also claimed to have “struck five Iranian AH-1 attack helicopters that were at a military base in the Kermanshah area” only this morning.
Overnight, Israeli aeroplanes bombarded Iran’s capital while Iran fired a minor volley of missiles towards Israel; no injuries were reported.
An Iranian official warned that any U.S. intervention in the conflict “would be a recipe for an all-out war in the region.”
He did not elaborate, but thousands of American troops are based in nearby countries within range of Iran’s weapons.
The U.S. has threatened a massive response to any attack.
The latest Israeli strikes hit a facility used to make uranium centrifuges and another that made missile components, the Israeli military said.
It said it had intercepted 10 missiles overnight as Iran’s retaliatory barrages diminish.
Iran defends action
Iran’s ambassador to the UK defended his country’s actions before the Foreign Affairs Committee, stressing that Iran is not aiming to build a nuclear weapon.
“There is no desire, there is no intention to produce the nuclear bomb,” Seyed Ali Mousavi declared at the meeting.
Mousavi also stressed that Iran will remain “in the middle of negotiation” with the U.S.
In a tense encounter with a few MPs, Mousavi rejected the label “regime” in referencing Iran’s authorities.
“My government is a legal government and there is no doubt about it,” he added.
Iran has long insisted its nuclear program was peaceful, though it was the only non-nuclear-armed state to enrich uranium up to 60%, a short, technical step away from weapons-grade levels of 90%.
The International Atomic Energy Agency, the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog, was still conducting limited inspections in the country.
U.S. intelligence agencies, as well, have said they did not believe Iran was actively pursuing the bomb.
Meanwhile, explosions were heard in Tehran early Wednesday as intense Israeli airstrikes again targeted Iran’s capital in a conflict that a human rights group said had killed at least 585 people across Iran and wounded 1,326 others.
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