As the conflict involving Iran, the United States and Israel entered its fifth day, explosions struck multiple locations across Iran on Wednesday, including the eastern part of Tehran, while the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) announced waves of strikes against U.S. and Israeli military targets.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced on Wednesday that its air forces had launched another wave of massive strikes against targets in Tehran. Earlier that morning, explosions were reported in eastern Tehran, following overnight blasts in southern cities including Bandar Abbas and Shiraz.
Video footage aired by China Central Television (CCTV) showed unidentified flying objects over Bandar Abbas during the explosions, which were believed to be linked to U.S. or Israeli operations amid Iran’s closure of its airspace.
One day earlier, Bushahr Airport in southern Iran was hit, destroying a passenger aircraft, damaging a smaller plane, and causing structural damage to the terminal building.
Meanwhile, the IRGC had launched 17 rounds of strikes against Israeli and U.S. military targets in the region as of Wednesday 11:20 AM. In its latest operation by the time, Iran announced to have fired more than 40 missiles.
From the early hours until late morning of the day, the IRGC released multiple statements, claiming it had struck U.S. strategic targets in the Indian Ocean, targeting a destroyer and a supply vessel about 650 kilometers off Iran's coast, setting both ships ablaze.
The statements also detailed three coordinated drone operations targeting U.S. bases in Erbil, Iraq, as well as Ali Al Salem Air Base and Camp Arifjan in Kuwait. A total of 230 attack drones were launched against the targets.
In an earlier wave of attacks in early Wednesday morning, the IRGC said it carried out missile and drone strikes on multiple Israeli military targets in central and northern Israel, claiming Israeli casualties had exceeded 680 by the fourth day of the conflict. The Iranian government announced Wednesday that a farewell ceremony for late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, killed in U.S.-Israeli strikes on Saturday, will be held that evening in central Tehran, followed by a funeral in the eastern city of Mashhad.
On the same day, a senior Iranian official said that the Assembly of Experts, the body empowered to appoint the Supreme Leader, may postpone its final session to elect a successor until after Khamenei's funeral.
Strikes reported across Iran as IRGC announces retaliatory attacks on US, Israel
