Tehran’s night sky was once again ripped open by explosions as Israeli warplanes and missiles slammed into a new wave of IRGC military sites around the capital, in what officials in Jerusalem describe as a “systematic dismantling” of Iran’s war machine.

Residents reported deafening blasts on the city’s outskirts, followed by power cuts and plumes of fire rising above suspected IRGC command centers, drone depots and intelligence hubs. Social media filled with footage of tracer fire and panicked crowds as air‑raid sirens struggled to keep pace with the incoming barrage.

The IDF says its latest strikes focused on “the core of Iran’s regional aggression network,” claiming to have destroyed underground bunkers used to coordinate proxy militias in Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Yemen. “Every launcher, every control room we hit tonight is one less missile aimed at our cities,” an Israeli spokesman declared.

Iranian state TV insists most of the damage is “limited,” but hospital sources speak of mounting casualties among IRGC personnel and nearby civilians. The government has vowed “crushing revenge,” hinting at ballistic‑missile salvos and coordinated attacks by allied militias across the Middle East.

Global markets shuddered as energy traders priced in the risk of wider escalation, while diplomats warned that each new Israeli strike on Tehran tightens the trap: either Iran swallows repeated blows, or it responds in a way that could ignite a regional firestorm stretching from the Mediterranean to the Strait of Hormuz.