Israeli air force achieved freedom of operation in Tehran's airspace, IDF says

Axios ^ | 6/14/2025 | Barak Ravid

[marcusmaximus]

Israel Defense Forces has achieved full freedom of operation in the air space around Iran's capital Tehran, the IDF announced on Saturday.

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"We established aerial freedom of operation in western Iran, up to Tehran... Tehran is no longer immune—Iran's capital is now exposed to Israeli strikes," IDF spokesman Brigadier General Effie Defrin said in a press conference.

Driving the news: IDF officials said in a briefing with reporters that over the last 36 hours since Israel launched the war against Iran the Israeli air force has eliminated the Iranian air defenses that could threaten Israeli fighter jets on their way to Tehran.

On Saturday morning, 70 Israeli fighter jets flew more than 900 miles, spent more than two hours in Tehran's airspace and attacked dozens of target in the Iranian capital, the IDF said.

"We struck over forty missile-related targets and advanced air defense systems across Iran, alongside additional command and launch infrastructure," Defrin said.

He added that dozens of Israeli "aerial platforms" are operating freely over Tehran. "This is a region where the Air Force is operating for the first time—the deepest we've ever operated within Iran," Defrin noted.

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KEYWORDS: iran; regimechangegasm; spamusmaximus; teheranin3days; tehrangasm; tehranin3days; warporn; zeepers4war; zeepgasm

[marcusmaximus]

Confirmed Killed (33 Total)

Senior Military & IRGC Leadership

1. Major General Hossein Salami Commander in Chief, IRGC

2. Major General Mohammad Bagheri Chief of General Staff, Armed Forces

3. Rear Admiral Ali Shamkhani Expediency Discernment Council Member / Adviser to Supreme Leader

4. Major General Gholam Ali Rashid Commander, Khatam al Anbiya Central HQ

5. Brigadier General Amir Ali Hajizadeh Commander, IRGC Aerospace Force

6. Brigadier General Esmail Qaani Commander, IRGC Quds Force

7. Brigadier General Davoud Shaykhian Head, IRGC Aerospace Air Defense Command

8. Brigadier General Taher Pour Head, IRGC UAV Forces

9. Brigadier General Masoud Shane'e Chief of Staff, IRGC

10. Major General Gholamreza Mehrabi Deputy Minister of Intelligence

11. Major General Mehdi Rabbani Deputy Chief of Operations

12. Amin Abbas Rashid Son of Maj. Gen. Gholam Ali Rashid

13. Brigadier General Ali Fadavi Deputy Commander in Chief, IRGC

14. Brigadier General Abbas Nilforoshan IRGC Operations Deputy

15. Brigadier General Mohammad Hijazi Former Deputy Commander, Quds Force

16. Brigadier General Yadollah Jawani Political Deputy, IRGC

17. Brigadier General Nasser Shabani Commander, Tharallah Base

18. Brigadier General Ali Shadmani Military Adviser, General Staff

19. Brigadier General Reza Safdari Senior Commander, Khatam al Anbiya Air Defense Base

20. Brigadier General Hasan Pordast IRGC Western Command

21. Seyed Amir Hossein Feqhi Deputy Head, AEOI / Professor, Shahid Beheshti University

22. Mohammad Mehdi Tehranchi President, Islamic Azad University

23. Fereydoon Abbasi Former Head, AEOI

24. Dr. Abdolhamid Minouchehr Head of Nuclear Engineering, Shahid Beheshti University

25. Ahmad Reza Zolfaghari Nuclear Engineering Professor, Shahid Beheshti University

26. Motalibizadeh Nuclear Scientist

27. Ali Bekaei Karimi Nuclear Scientist

28. Mansour Asgari Nuclear Scientist

29. Saeed Borji Nuclear Scientist

30. Dr. Amin Abbasi Nia Nuclear Physicist, Fordow Site

31. Dr. Mojtaba Karimi Senior Centrifuge Expert, Natanz

32. Dr. Zahra Mousavi Materials Engineer, Arak Heavy Water Project

33. Dr. Hossein Akbarzadeh Advanced Technologies Security Adviser, AEOI

[Uncle Miltie]

All your skies are belong to us!

Am Yisrael Chai!

[marcusmaximus]

#RegimeChange #ByeBye

[Uncle Miltie]

In comparison to 33 totalitarian Islamist genocidal terrorists waxed, three (3) innocent Israelis have died in un-aimed ballistic missile attacks on civilian population centers around Tel Aviv.

[Bayard]

If Iran is folding up like a cheap suit. Absolutely no fabric to all their bluster.

[Ultra Sonic 007]

Meanwhile, I’m seeing images and texts about Iranian birds still flying on Twitter.

Time will tell.

[Get Daddy a Beer]

Dying ain’t much of a living.

[Blennos]

There is still some question about two on that list:

From Tsarfati's Telegram channel. Posted a few minutes ago.

Please note that confirmation of the killing of Ali Shamkhani and Esmail Qaani has not yet been received - nor has the Iranian media. The basic assumption is that both are currently alive (Shamkhani is seriously injured and hospitalized according to the latest report on his case).

But, in any case, it's just a matter of time. The mullah regime is finished.

[jerod]

The dudes that didn’t get killed because they didn’t show up at the meeting are likely Mossad informants. If they haven’t gotten out of Iran already they better get to it... Because lets face it... An excuse of ‘I was too sick’ to go to that meeting won’t likely save them.

Iran is likely executing lots of innocent people, under the mistaken assumption that they are informing the Mossad.

[SkyDancer]

So the stories about two Israeli jets shot down and a woman pilot captured are false?

[marcusmaximus]

So the stories about two Israeli jets shot down and a woman pilot captured are false?

Yep.

[GOPJ]

Driving the news: IDF officials said in a briefing with reporters that over the last 36 hours since Israel launched the war against Iran the Israeli air force has eliminated the Iranian air defenses that could threaten Israeli fighter jets on their way to Tehran.

There's a message here for terrorist nations...

[Kazan]

Going beyond taking out Iran's nuclear capability and Iran's military leaders and dragging us into some regime change/nation building scheme will be another costly disaster and enforce the world's perception that Israel and we are the world's bullies. There is nothing defensive about the latter.

We wasted billions trying to nation build in both Iraq and Afghanistan and it was disaster.

Neocon foreign policy must die once and for all.

[marcusmaximus]

[castlebrew]

"32. Dr. Zahra Mousavi Materials Engineer, Arak Heavy Water Project"

Heavy Water Project?!!! WTF!!! Has anyone seen ANY mention of an Iranian Heavy Water Project? Which is a key component of a Hydrogen (fusion, not fission) bomb program? Anyone?

[plain talk]

Me thinks Iran will have disciplined responses for now and play the role of victim seeking world’s pity.

Then later at a time of their choosing they will launch nukes, biological or whatever dirty bomb they can muster against Israel. They know now Israel is prepared for strikes. They could wait years and then launch a massive strike ... or muddle about now.

A later surprise attack would be smarter IMO but who knows with these people who have never shown themselves to be smart or logical.

[basalt]

is it me or was all this done rather easily. All the media has done for years is say how powerful the Iranian military is. This could have been done years ago. The Iran/Iraq war was comedy gold, but didnt realize they were this weak. Those Jews can fight baby...

[jjotto]

https://www.nti.org/education-center/facilities/heavy-water-production-plant-hwpp/

[Wallace T.]

Lose a majority of the Jewish population of Europe in the 1940s (over 90% in Poland) and you will have extreme motivation for national preservation. In a similar vein, why do you think the Ukrainians are fighting so doggedly against Russia? They had their own version of the Holocaust, the Holodomor im the 1930s, with at least four million Ukrainians killed by starvation, execution, or forced labor in the Gulag.

[Brian Griffin]

Be aware Iran still has enough U-235 to make bombs.