Israel attacked Iran with over 200 fighters, hitting over 100 targets, including nuclear facilities

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Israel attacked Iran's capital early Friday in strikes that targeted the country's nuclear program and raised the potential for an all-out war between the two bitter Middle East adversaries. It appeared to be the most significant attack Iran has faced since its 1980s war with Iraq, with multiple sites around the country hit.
Israel’s military says 200 fighter jets have been used in its ongoing strikes on Iran.
“More than 100 targets have been struck across Iran,” IDF spokesperson Effie Defrin said during a live briefing, adding that “over 330 various munitions” have already been dropped.
Defrin said Israel’s strikes were “part of a precise and synchronized operation” and that its pilots were “still striking military targets and targets from the nuclear program across different areas in Iran.”
Israel says it killed Mohammad Bagheri, Iran's armed forces chief of staff, along with senior nuclear scientists in targeted strikes.
"It is likely that the Iranian chief of staff and senior nuclear scientists were eliminated in the initial strike," the update said, citing an official, who spoke on condition of anonymity for security reasons.
Iran's Revolutionary Guards Commander-in-Chief Hossein Salami was killed in the large-scale strikes on June 13.
Iran's Islamic Republic News Agency stated that Major General Hossein Salami, Chief Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps, was “assassinated in an Israeli strike in Tehran."
Senior IRGC commander Gholamali Rashid, along with at least two nuclear officials, Fereydoun Abbasi and Mohammad Mehdi Tehranchi, were also killed in the attacks.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said “Operation Rising Lion” struck Iran’s main enrichment facility in Natanz, nuclear scientists, and what he called “the heart of Iran’s ballistic missiles program.”

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