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The IDF has entered what Israeli chief of staff Eyad Zamir has called the “second phase” of the war against Iran. It has been striking Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps targets — training centers, the IRGC military university, and a missile assembly compound — in western and central Iran. More on what it has managed to do recently can be found here: “IDF targets IRGC’s Air Force situation room, aircraft used to transfer weapons to Hezbollah,” by Tobias Holcman, Jerusalem Post, March 7, 2026:
A fleet of over 80 Israel Air Force fighter jets completed another wave of strikes targeting infrastructure belonging to the Iranian regime in Tehran, which included the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Air Force situation room, which was key to the air defense systems in Iran and was located in the heart of Tehran, the IDF announced early Saturday.
The strikes also targeted 16 aircraft belonging to the elite Quds Force that were being used to transfer weapons to Hezbollah in Lebanon, the military said.
An earlier IDF statement said that several military sites were struck, including the main IRGC military university, the Imam Hossein University, which was used for the training of IRGC officers and as an emergency asset, and, most recently, an IRGC assembly compound during Operation Rising Lion.
The university contained multiple military assets used by the IRGC.
A storage site of the Iranian missile unit, in which military bunkers and launching infrastructure were located were also targeted, as well as underground infrastructure used for storing ballistic missiles where hundreds of regime operatives were operating. The site included military bunkers and command centers housing senior officials of the Iranian regime, the IDF said.
Iran’s store of missiles were struck, and its anti-missile defense systems further degraded. Several of the plants where the missiles were built were also destroyed. Some reports suggest that the Iranians no longer have a single ballistic missile plant still intact.
Every day brings fresh reports of destruction of underground bunkers, including those housing command-and-control centers, of arsenals of missiles, drones, and launching pads devastated, of senior officials who, continuing to live in Khamenei’s own bunker, underneath the leadership’s compound in the capital, were killed, because they apparently believed that having killed Khamenei, the Israelis would think there was no need to hit it again. The IDF knew that the bunker was one of the most important military command centers, and fifty Israeli planes attacked it, dropping bombs one after the other, to make sure it was entirely destroyed, along with IRGC commanders in the bunker who thought they would be safe.
Israel now owns the skies over Iran. Not a single Israeli plane or pilot has been lost, while thousands of targets have been hit across Iran. The supporters of the Islamic regime are surely in despair, experiencing defeat on every side as their stock of ballistic missiles plummets. Recognizing the folly of attacking neighboring Arab states, and wanting to husband Iran’s ballistic missiles for attacks on the Jewish state, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has apologized to the Arab states and promised to end those attacks on them as long as Iran is no longer attacked from those states.
But does Pezeshkian, considered an Iranian “moderate,” have the authority to ensure that such a promise will be kept? After he made that promise, Iranian ballistic missiles and drones struck targets in Saudi Arabia, including the Prince Sultan Air Base, the Shaybah oilfield, and locations near Riyadh. In Bahrain, on March 7, Iranian missiles struck the Israeli Embassy, anoil facility, and a hotel. In the UAE, again after Pezeshkian made his promise not to hit the Arab states if there were no attacks on Iran originating from their territories, Iranian missiles struck urban centers and civilian buildings in both Abu Dhabi and Dubai. In Qatar, sirens were heard, and apparently struck near the Al-Udeid air base.
Within the next few days and weeks, we will see if President Pezeshkian’s promise not to hit Iran’s neighbors will now be kept, or whether the IRGC, determined to sow chaos and confusion in the region, and to disrupt the world energy markets, continues to hit the Arab oil states.
