Some Iranian officials, certainly authorized by the regime, claimed that in tonight’s attack the Israeli Air Force targeted several missile basesa battery of S-300s and the Parchin plant near Tehran. According to reports from the past, it is not the first time that these objectives have come under scrutiny. Already in 2022 an engineer was killed in that area by a UAV attack attributed to Israel. In that case, as usual, the Israeli authorities never confirmed or denied the news.
It remains that in Parchin nuclear activity has always been disguised and the evidence obscured in as many ways as possible. Some Iranian officials, probably the same ones because it is presumed that those authorized to speak to the foreign press are rarer than unicorns, told the New York Times that tonight’s attack would have been carried out with a series of UAVs and only one of them hit the target while the others would have been shot down by anti-aircraft. It is known that in this base, which in various reports is also referred to as a “security structure”, Missile technologies and suicide drones are being developedas well as nuclear technologies.
Parking it is located about 30 km east of Tehran and it is known that experiments aimed at allowing the production of nuclear weapons have been conducted there in the past. Even if at present there is no concrete information indicating the resumption of efforts to produce the warhead, if the news according to which the Parchin plant was attacked turns out to be true, the reasons are to be found in the intention to counteract the capacity of Tehran to conduct tests that would advance its production of a nuclear weapon.
In 2011, about four years before the signing of the nuclear deal, the International Atomic Energy Agency published a serious report indicating the construction of a facility to conduct hydrodynamic experiments at the Parchin military base, a detail which had since then indicated the possible development of nuclear weapons. But that’s not all, the same reports indicated the existence of underground bunkers within which attempts were made to simultaneously activate the explosives that are part of the bomb’s mechanism, as well as hydrodynamic experiments related to the development of nuclear weapons.
This information has put Parchin at the head of the list of main targets to be hit within the Iranian nuclear program aimed at destroying the State of Israel. In the months following the publication of that report, assessments and satellite images were released suggesting that Iran was decontaminating the site of evidence of nuclear activity with military characteristics.
In any case, what is known for sure is that to carry out the operation the Israeli Air Force used dozens of fighter planes that targeted 20 different targets. The IDF said the targets were aimed at military complexes, air defense systems, missile production facilities and surface-to-surface missile launchers in Tehran districts, as well as Khuzestan and Ilam districts in the west of the country.
The S-300 air defense battery stationed at Imam Khomeini International Airport which was supposed to provide protection to parts of the Iranian capital was also attacked. To this we must add that at least three Revolutionary Guard missile bases were damaged during the bombings. An important note: on board the F15 and F35 that bombed Iran last night there were 4 women, air force officers, acting as navigators.
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