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2026-04-07 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
IDF Strikes Tehran Airports, Destroying Dozens Of Iranian Aircraft, also 2 petrochemical plants, more key people killed

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🚨 BREAKING: IDF Strikes Tehran Airports, Dozens Of Iranian Aircraft Destroyed

The IDF reports overnight airstrikes on three Tehran-area airports, targeting Iranian Air Force and IRGC aviation assets. Israeli fighter jets struck planes, helicopters, and military infrastructure at Mehrabad Airport and two smaller airstrips, inflicting a significant blow to Iran’s aerial capabilities.

Israel kills Islamic Guards intel chief; bombs largest Iranian petrochemical plant

[IsraelTimes] Military also kills head of Quds Force’s clandestine Unit 840; Katz vows that Israel will ‘hunt down’ Iran’s leaders until the end; strikes hit airports used by IRGC

The Israeli Air Force launched a wave of attacks on 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...
overnight Sunday and on Monday, killing two senior Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps officers in Tehran, hitting the country’s largest petrochemical plant and blowing up several airports used by the IRGC as fighting continued despite efforts to reach a ceasefire.

A first strike killed Majid Khademi, who served as head of the Intelligence Protection Organization of the IRGC and the Intelligence Organization of the IRGC. He entered the role several months ago, following the killing of his predecessor, Mohammad Kazemi, by Israel during the June 2025 war.

A separate strike in Tehran killed another top IRGC official, Yazdan Mir, known by his alias Sardar Bagher (sometimes spelled Asghar Bakri), who headed the IRGC Quds Force’s clandestine Unit 840.

The Israel Defense Forces said Khademi was "one of the IRGC’s most senior commanders and had accumulated extensive military and security experience over many years."

"In his role, he was responsible for gathering intelligence and helping formulate a comprehensive situational assessment for the regime’s big shotship" during the war, the military said.

Khademi also "worked to advance terror activities against the State of Israel and against Jewish targets worldwide. He also took part in attempts to target American individuals and was responsible for monitoring Iranian civilians as part of the regime’s suppression of internal protests," the IDF added.

On Bagheri, the IDF said he held several senior roles in the Quds Force over the years, "within which he advanced numerous efforts to target Israeli and American targets around the world."

Unit 840 has been implicated in kidnappings and liquidations of figures outside of Iran, including Israelis.

The military said Bagheri "coordinated and promoted terror activities against the State of Israel, including operations carried out within the territory of the State of Israel, Syria, and Leb
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Unit 840, under Bagheri’s leadership, had also "advanced operations aimed at harming IDF troops operating in the buffer zone in Syria, using Syrian operatives who had previously served in Assad’s army," the army said.

In addition, the military said Bagheri was involved in smuggling weapons from Iran into Israel and the West Bank.

Defense Minister Israel Katz, who said he was updated on the strike during an assessment with IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir, declared, "Iran’s leaders live with a sense of persecution. We will continue to hunt them down one by one."

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lauded the military for Khademi’s liquidation in a Hebrew-language post on X. He also hailed the liquidation of Bagheri, calling him "responsible for attacks against Jews and Israelis around the world."

"Whoever acts to murder our citizens, whoever directs terrorism against Israel, whoever builds the Iranian axis of evil — their blood is on their own head. We are acting with power and determination; we will reach anyone who seeks to harm us," the premier warned.

"We will continue with full force, on all fronts, until the threat is removed and all the objectives of the war are achieved."

ISRAEL STRIKES SOUTH PARS PETROCHEMICAL PLANT IN IRAN
The Israeli Air Force also struck Iran’s South Pars petrochemical plant at Asaluyeh.

Katz said in a statement that the IDF "has just powerfully struck the largest petrochemical facility in Iran, located in Asaluyeh, a central target responsible for about 50 percent of the country’s petrochemical production, following last week’s strike on the second main facility."

He said that the two facilities, "which together are responsible for about 85% of Iran’s petrochemical exports, have been taken out of use and are not functioning."

"This is a severe economic blow amounting to tens of billions of dollars to the Iranian regime," he said.

Katz said that the petrochemical industry is a "central engine in financing the activities" of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Iran’s military build-up.

He added that the IDF has been instructed to "continue striking with full force the national infrastructure of the Iranian terror regime."

"The Iranian terror regime will discover that continued aggression against Israel and the cowardly and criminal firing at Israeli civilians will lead to a deepening of the economic and strategic damage it pays and to the collapse of its capabilities," Katz said.

Hours later, a second petrochemical facility in Iran was hit by Arclight airstrike
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s, Iranian media reported.

"A few minutes ago, the Marvdasht Petrochemical Complex was targeted by an American-Zionist enemy attack," the Fars news agency reported, adding that a fire that sparked at the complex was brought under control, and no casualties were caused.

Israel did not immediately comment on the report.

IAF BOMBS AIRPORTS, SAYS THEY WERE USED BY QUDS FORCE
The Israeli Air Force also bombed airports in Tehran overnight, saying they were being used by the Quds Force, the IRGC’s extraterritorial arm.

The strikes came as Iran continued to launch ballistic missile attacks at Israel, some of which have proven deadly in recent days.

Israel’s military said it struck three airports in the Tehran area, hitting runways and control towers, along with a Quds Force factory that manufactured drones.

Iranian media also reported that an airstrike on a residential building in a city southwest of Iran’s capital had killed at least 13 people. The semiofficial Fars news agency and Nour News reported the strike near Eslamshar. It wasn’t immediately clear why the building was struck.

Separately, gas outages hit parts of Tehran after a strike on a university, according to Iran’s state broadcaster, but were soon restored, according to Iranian state television
... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?The strike, which occurred in the early hours of Monday, hit a gas pressure reduction station and metering facilities at Sharif University of Technology, causing a leak. "The attack did not result in a fire, and in less than half an hour, the gas leak was completely fixed," state broadcaster IRIB said.

It wasn’t immediately clear what had been targeted on the grounds of the university, which is empty of students amid the war. However,
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multiple countries over the years have sanctioned the university for its work with the military, particularly on Iran’s ballistic missile program, a main target of the US-Israeli campaign.

The attack also hit the university’s data center, which houses an artificial intelligence facility, according to the Fars news agency.

Iranian media carried footage showing extensive damage at the site, with twisted metal, debris and damaged structures across the area.

AMERICAN FORCES IN KUWAIT TARGETED WITH DRONES
Meanwhile,
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Iran targeted US forces located on Kuwait’s Bubiyan Island, the spokesperson of Iran’s Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters said in a video statement shared by state media.

Ebrahim Zolfaqari said Iran targeted satellite equipment and munitions on the island with drones, adding that US forces had relocated there from Arifjan camp after that base was repeatedly struck by Iran.

Bubiyan Island is the largest of Kuwait’s coastal island chain, located in the northwest of the Gulf.

Six people were maimed from debris falling in a residential area in northern Kuwait after an Iranian attack, Kuwait’s health ministry said earlier.

The United Arab Emirates said overnight that its air defenses were responding to a missile and drone attack.

A drone attack damaged a telecommunications building in the UAE’s Fujairah in the United Arab Emirates, the state-run WAM news agency reported. The attack targeted a building of the state-funded du telecom company. No one was injured, WAM reported, quoting officials in Fujairah.

In the UAE capital of Abu Dhabi, authorities said a Ghanaian man suffered wounds from shrapnel after the interception of an Iranian missile over the city’s Musaffah neighborhood. That’s near Al Dhafra Air Base, which hosts US forces and has been repeatedly targeted by Iran in the war.
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Posted by badanov 2026-04-07 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [1883 views ]  Top
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1  Vodkapundit wrote some interesting things in a piece published yesterday:

An interesting tidbit: a pair of unverified rumors that lean into today's news. The first — and quite persistent — is that Quds Force chief Esmail Qaani is an Israeli asset. Quds Force specializes in unconventional warfare, international terrorism, and military intelligence. Qaani became head following President Donald Trump's assassination of former chief Qasem Soleimani in 2020.

The second rumor is that Khademi was heading up an internal investigation of Qaani before getting blown up. If there's any substance to these rumors, you can imagine the chaos right now inside Quds and the IRGC as a whole.

But again, these are merely rumors.

Not a rumor is OSINTechnical's report on Monday that another recent strike also killed Yazdan Mir, "leader of the Quds Force's Unit 840, a covert operational group responsible for conducting clandestine activities outside of Iran."

Tehran played the ballistic missile/drone-strike card early in the war — and as everyone assumed they would — but to rapidly diminishing returns. The regime's next card, perhaps its last card, would be launching waves of terrorist strikes in the U.S., Israel, and elsewhere. Those could be anything from suicide bombers to gunmen shooting up malls, to repeats of the Oct. 7, 2023, terror invasion of Israel.

It's the card many of us have dreaded from the start.

While I wouldn't relax just yet, Mir's death may hinder Tehran's ability to trigger sleeper cells in foreign countries, particularly if the IRGC has genuine doubts about Qaani's reliability. Killing Khademi sends another signal to the people of Iran that we're serious about eliminating Tehran's tools of oppression.
Posted by trailing wife 2026-04-07 04:17||   2026-04-07 04:17|| Front Page Top

2 "The regime's next card, perhaps its last card, would be launching waves of terrorist strikes in the U.S., Israel, and elsewhere. Those could be anything from suicide bombers to gunmen shooting up malls"

See Pearl Harbor & 9/11 for how angry this country gets attacks on the US.
Posted by Chantry 2026-04-07 08:26||   2026-04-07 08:26|| Front Page Top

3 A bit surprising that this wasn't done until now.

Perhaps, the IDF wanted to give the regime the option of exile but now wants to prevent the use of those aircraft in the coming internal conflict.
Posted by Lord Garth 2026-04-07 10:54||   2026-04-07 10:54|| Front Page Top

4 Reports: Explosions Heard at Kharg Island, Iran’s Critical Oil Export Site
Posted by Skidmark 2026-04-07 12:14||   2026-04-07 12:14|| Front Page Top

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