Iran's military says the Israeli warplanes used 'very light warheads' to target border radar systems in the provinces of Ilam and Khuzestan and around Tehran.
Scores of Israel i jets completed three waves of strikes before dawn on Saturday against missile factories and other sites near Tehran and in western Iran , Israel 's military said.
It was retaliation for Iran's October 1 attack on Israel with about 200 ballistic missiles, and Israel warned its heavily armed archenemy not to hit back after the latest strike. David Albright, a former UN nuclear weapons inspector, said low-resolution commercial satellite imagery appeared to show that one Israeli strike hit the sprawling Parchin military complex near Tehran, damaging three buildings, including two where solid fuel was mixed for ballistic missile engines.
Worsening conflict in Lebanon, where Israel is waging an intense campaign against Iran's main regional ally Hezbollah to stop it firing rockets into northern Israel, has raised the temperature still further. Two regional officials briefed by Iran told Reuters that several high-level meetings were held in Tehran to determine the scope of Iran's response.
"We see that Israel wants to close this event, to pass this message to Iran that it is closed and we don't want to escalate it," he said.
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