US Central Command (CENTCOM) said it also destroyed Iranian air defense installations and missile and drone launch sites.
The United States military said its forces destroyed Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) command and control facilities and air defense installations as heavy US-Israeli strikes on Iran continued for a fourth day and retaliated across the Tehran region.
US Central Command (CENTCOM), which is responsible for US military operations in the Middle East, said on Tuesday it had also destroyed air defense installations and missile and drone launch sites. It has not provided any evidence for its claims.
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“We will continue to take decisive action against the imminent threats posed by the Iranian regime,” it posted on X.
On Monday, CENTCOM claimed US forces had hit more than 1,250 targets in Iran and destroyed 11 Iranian ships.
Meanwhile, it confirmed that six US service personnel have so far been killed in Iran’s retaliatory attack in Kuwait over the weekend.
It added that Kuwait mistakenly shot down three US F-15E fighter jets during the Iranian attack. All six crewmen were ejected and recovered safely.
Meanwhile, ISNA agency reported that five members of the IRGC’s air force and navy were killed in US-Israel strikes on the cities of Jam and Dir in the central province of Bushehr.
The war is unlikely to end soon, as US President Donald Trump said on Monday that Iran has the “capability to go much further” than its planned four-to-five-week timeframe for its military operations against Iran.
Israel’s attack on Iran continues
Explosions rang out across the Iranian capital, Tehran, on Tuesday night and early morning.
Israel’s air force is conducting multiple operations against Iran’s air defense system and eliminating several of its forces, military spokesman Avichai Adrei said.
In a post on X, Adray said the Israeli aircraft targeted several personnel operating Iran’s defense systems, including its radar systems and missile launchers.
He said Israel’s air force had struck sites associated with Iran’s ballistic missile launch platforms.
On another front in the widening conflict, the Israeli army launched a simultaneous attack on positions belonging to Hezbollah in the Lebanese capital Beirut on Tuesday.
The announcement followed Israeli airstrikes early Monday in southern suburbs of Beirut and southern Lebanon that killed at least 52 people and wounded 154, state media said.
Hezbollah earlier said it launched an attack on Ramat David airbase in northern Israel early Tuesday morning by deploying a “swarm of drones” targeting radar sites and control rooms.
UN ‘deeply alarmed’ by attacks on civilians, schools and hospitals
Top UN officials have warned of a “serious” threat to children following rapidly escalating military operations in Iran and across the region.
“We are deeply alarmed by attacks on civilians, including civilian infrastructure, schools and hospitals. Schools and hospitals should not be attacked,” Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict Vanessa Frazier and Special Representative on Violence against Children Vanessa Frazier said in a joint statement.
The officials called for an immediate cessation of hostilities, stressing that “maximum restraint is essential and that all parties must ensure at all times full compliance with international humanitarian and human rights law.”
At least 165 schoolgirls and staff were killed in the attack on a primary school in Minab, while nine hospitals in the country were seriously damaged, Iranian officials said.
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