Israel army says Iran leadership ‘shaken’ by campaign

The Israeli military said on Thursday that its campaign of strikes on Iran had already “shaken” the country’s clerical leadership, adding that it was continuing to “deepen the damage”.

“The goal of the operation is to inflict severe damage on the Iranian terror regime until it removes the existential threat… And we continue to deepen the damage to the regime,” military spokesman Brigadier General Effie Defrin said in a televised briefing.

“It is important for me to say that it is already shaken. It was shaken by the first strike on Saturday morning, when the leadership was thwarted. And every day we continue to destabilise it more and more, to deepen the damage to it until the existential threat is removed,” he added.

Alongside strikes on Iran, Israel also continues to attack Hezbollah targets in Lebanon, where its forces pushed into several southern border towns on Wednesday.

Lebanon was drawn into the Middle East war on Monday, when Hezbollah attacked Israel in response to the killing of Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei during US-Israeli strikes over the weekend.

“Hezbollah is an arm of Iran. It serves the terror regime inside Iran,” Defrin said in the briefing on Thursday, but added that the coordination between the two “is not that tight.”

“So far, we have struck more than 320 Hezbollah terror targets, about 80 of them in the last 24 hours alone,” Defrin said.

“There are many commanders and soldiers who are working around the clock to hit Hezbollah and exact a heavy price from it.”

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