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IDF released footage from yesterday's strikes on Iranian warships in the area of Bandar Anzali located on the Caspian sea
2026-03-20

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Israeli Defense Forces released footage from yesterday's strikes on Iranian warships in the area of the port of Bandar Anzali located on the Caspian Sea coast.

Among the targets appears to be the Moudge-class frigate IRIS Deylaman (1st clip), an unofficial flagship of Iran's Northern Fleet.

The second warship of the same class, IRIS Dena, was sunk by the U.S. Navy Los Angeles-class submarine USS Charlotte near the southern coast of Sri Lanka two weeks ago.
The Times of Israel adds:
Overnight Israeli strikes at the Iranian port city of Bandar Anzali and in the Caspian Sea destroyed several vessels of the Iranian Navy, as well as naval infrastructure, the IDF said Thursday, publishing footage of the attacks.

According to the IDF, the strikes destroyed an Iranian Navy corvette, four missile boats, several auxiliary ships and guard boats, along with a command center and a shipyard. Some of the vessels were located at the port, while others were out at sea.

Israeli Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
s hit Iranian Navy vessels and infrastructure at the Iranian port city of Bandar Anzal and in the Caspian Sea, March 18, 2026. (Israel Defense Forces)

The military said the missile boats were targeted to cause a blow to the Iranian military, despite the fact that they do not pose a direct threat to Israel from the Caspian Sea.

Still, the IDF added that the missile boats have anti-aircraft capabilities and could pose a threat to Israeli aircraft operating over Iran, as well as anti-submarine capabilities.

Preparations for the strike only began days ago, and it was not among the military’s initial bank of targets in Iran. Researchers at the Naval Intelligence Division located the ships and worked with the Military Intelligence Directorate and the Israeli Air Force to plan the strike.

It marks the first time that the IDF struck in that area of Iran, both in this war and the previous rounds of conflict, according to the military.

The IDF also said Thursday that an Mi-17 helicopter was destroyed in a strike at Sanandaj Airport in western Iran’s Hamedan the previous day.

"The IDF continues to deepen the damage to the military capabilities of the Revolutionary Guards’ air force and expand air superiority in western Iran," the military said of the strike carried out yesterday, adding that it came as a result of "real-time intelligence," the army said.

A member of the Basij force was also killed in an Israeli airstrike on western Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
on Wednesday, the IDF said on Thursday, attaching footage of the strike.

According to the IDF, the Basij soldier was stationed at a guard post at one of the force’s bases.
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