Israel targets Iran’s Basij and missile infrastructure in widening war

Middle East 09-03-2026 | 11:41

Israel targets Iran’s Basij and missile infrastructure in widening war

Israeli forces target command centers and ballistic facilities amid intensifying regional conflict.
Israel targets Iran’s Basij and missile infrastructure in widening war
Explosions in Iran. (AFP)
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Israel continues its strikes on Iran, more than a week into the U.S.-Israeli war on Tehran.

 

In the latest developments, the Israeli army announced attacks on ballistic missile launch sites, as well as various command sites of the internal security forces and the Basij in Iran, as part of an "expansion of the strike directed at all of the Iranian regime's systems and capabilities."

 

 

It noted that it attacked a "rocket motor manufacturing facility and several sites for launching long-range ballistic missiles intended to strike the State of Israel and its citizens."

 

 

Intercepting missiles over Israel. (AFP)
Intercepting missiles over Israel. (AFP)

 

 

Furthermore, the spokesperson stated: "On the other hand, the Defense Army continues to expand the strike directed at the military infrastructure of the internal security forces and the Basij. This includes the headquarters of the brigadier general corps of the Iranian regime, the main headquarters of the regime's internal security forces in Isfahan, a base previously used by the Revolutionary Guards and the Basij, and the command headquarters of the Revolutionary Guard's police."

 

 

The Israeli army described the Iranian internal security forces and the Basij as "part of the forces affiliated with the Iranian regime that have practiced terrorism for several years, suppressing Iranian citizens and routinely exercising severe violence against them."

 

In addition, Iranian media reported a missile strike targeting an airbase in the city of Bandar Abbas in the south of the country.

 

Meanwhile, Iran launched a missile barrage on Israel, intercepted by air defense systems according to the Israeli army.