ISTANBUL

The Israeli army said on Sunday that its fighter jets carried out airstrikes in the Yazd area of central Iran, targeting storage facilities housing long-range surface-to-surface missiles.

According to an official statement, the Israeli Air Force struck sites in the Yazd region storing Khorramshahr missiles—an Iranian system with a range of up to 2,000 kilometers.

“In broad daylight, we surprised the ‘Imam Hussein’ missile headquarters in central Iran,” said Tomer Bar, commander of the Israeli Air Force, who oversaw the mission alongside Gilad Keinan, head of air operations, according to the statement.

“We destroyed Khorramshahr missiles before they were launched at Israel and struck tunnels used to store the missiles.”

Earlier in the day, Iranian media reported that local air defenses were activated and placed on high alert, without giving any further details.

US President Donald Trump said early Sunday that his forces bombed three Iranian nuclear sites in Fordo, Natanz, and Isfahan.

The US targeted Iran’s nuclear sites with six bunker-buster bombs dropped on the Fordo facility with B-2 stealth bombers, along with dozens of submarine-launched cruise missile strikes on the Natanz and Isfahan facilities.

The attacks came as the latest escalation in a US-backed Israeli military assault on Iran since June 13, prompting Tehran to launch retaliatory attacks on Israel.

Israeli authorities said at least 25 people have been killed and hundreds injured since then in Iranian missile attacks.

Meanwhile, in Iran, 430 people have been killed and more than 3,500 wounded in the Israeli assault, according to the Iranian Health Ministry.