Hatami vowed that the army would strike “hard at Israel” in response to Israel’s attacks over the last three days. It is not clear what Iran’s army possesses that could reach Israel.

Israel's "Operation Rising Lion" killed top Iranian commanders and nuclear scientists, including Bagheri, Salami, and Abbasi, severely impacting Iran's military.

Israel’s massive airstrike attack left Iran’s military leadership in crisis as it killed several senior Iranian commanders — including the head of its Revolutionary Guard.

Gholam-Reza Marhabi, Iran’s top intelligence officer, and Mohammad Bagheri, commander of the IRGC’s missile array, named among figures killed in Israel's Operation Rising Lion.

The Israeli military has killed more than 20 military commanders in attacks on Iran, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said on Saturday as the conflict between the two nations raged on. Among those killed was the head of the intelligence department in the Iranian armed forces' general staff,

The commanders killed include Iran's Intelligence Directorate Gholamreza Mehrabi as well as Mohammad Bagheri, commander of the IRGC’s Surface-To-Surface Missile Array.

Israel’s military headquarters were struck after Iran’s Islamic Republic unleashed a barrage of missiles on central Tel Aviv late Friday night, causing “significant damage” to the Jewish state’s equivalent of the Pentagon.

DUBAI (Reuters) -Iran said several top commanders and six nuclear scientists were killed in Israeli strikes on Friday targeting Iran's nuclear facilities, ballistic missile factories and military commanders to prevent Tehran from developing an atomic weapon.