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IDF says it has completed ‘wave of strikes’ on Iran
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The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) says it has completed “an additional wave of strikes” that targeted infrastructure of the Iranian regime.
More than 80 Israeli Air Force fighters jets were involved, it says.
As part of the strikes, the IDF says it “struck several military sites” including “the main Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps military university, the Imam Hossein University, which was used for the training of IRGC officers.”
It says it also struck a “storage site of the Iranian missile unit” and an underground ballistic missile site “where hundreds of regime operatives were operating”.

