According to a report by Times of Israel, on Wednesday March 11, 2026, Israeli forces struck an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps compound and a headquarters directly responsible for coordinating ballistic missile fire against Israel during a major aerial offensive launched against Iranian targets in Tehran and Tabriz, the Israel Defense Forces announced, marking what the military formally described as a new and intensified phase of the war.
The strikes, executed by the Israeli Air Force, were confirmed to have hit a total of five Iranian military and security installations. Among the targets were a special forces headquarters, the IRGC compound, a ballistic missile command post, a Security Police agency headquarters, and a Basij compound. The IDF stated explicitly that Iranian military personnel were gathered and active within each of these facilities at the precise moment the strikes were conducted. See More
The Israeli military justified the timing and scope of the operation by asserting that the targeted personnel were engaged in actively advancing what Israel described as terror operations directed not only at the Jewish state but at other nations across the Middle East.
“The headquarters and compounds were struck while soldiers of the Iranian terror regime were operating inside them to advance terror activities against the State of Israel and other countries in the Middle East,” the IDF stated.
Israeli officials positioned the operation within a broader strategic framework, describing the strikes as part of an ongoing effort to deepen damage to what they referred to as the core arrays of the Iranian regime. The language used by the IDF suggested the military views this phase of operations as going beyond reactive defense and into the deliberate erosion of Iran’s command-and-control infrastructure.
The simultaneous targeting of facilities in both Tehran and Tabriz indicates a dual-city coordinated campaign, suggesting Israeli military planners sought to stretch Iranian defensive response capacity across multiple geographic fronts at once.
The strikes represent a significant escalation in direct Israeli military action on Iranian soil. See More