Widespread airstrikes and explosions targeted Iranian military facilities and infrastructure across the country on Wednesday, alongside significant disruptions to major banking systems and reports of regime forces commandeering civilian buildings.
A massive wave of explosions and suspected Israeli airstrikes rocked military bases, naval ports, and urban centers across Iran on Wednesday, March 11. According to Iran International, a prominent exiled opposition network highly critical of the Islamic Republic, relentless detonations and the sounds of fighter jets were reported from the early hours of the morning through the afternoon. Citizens reported striking explosions at the Imam Hossein Military Center and Parchin base in Tehran, while اخبارفوری خبرفوری جنگ امریکا فوری, a breaking news aggregator, relayed reports that Israeli fighter jets bombed cities in the Kurdistan province.
The strikes severely degraded Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and naval infrastructure. According to eyewitnesses cited by Iran International, the Imam Ali Naval Base in Chabahar and a naval base in Sirik were hit by missiles, causing localized power outages. Widespread bombardments also decimated an IRGC base in Shahreza, Isfahan, which Iran International reported was "completely destroyed" and subsequently cordoned off by security forces, as noted by the outlet. Other targeted sites included the Mehrabad Airport perimeter, a missile base in Khomeyn, and a missile site and ammunition depot in Borazjan.
Alongside the kinetic military strikes, Iran's financial infrastructure suffered crippling blows. The aggregator اخبارفوری خبرفوری جنگ امریکا فوری reported an Israeli military claim that they had destroyed a digital branch of Bank Sepah. Iran International confirmed widespread disruptions across Bank Sepah and Bank Melli, leaving ATMs out of service and financial transactions paralyzed across multiple cities. In stark contrast, state-aligned domestic media sought to downplay the crisis; خراسان آنلاین framed the Bank Melli outage as a mere technical issue, announcing that the mobile application Baam would be restored for customers by Thursday.
In response to the nationwide assaults, regime security apparatuses appear to be heavily militarizing civilian spaces, either to hide from further airstrikes or to preempt domestic uprisings. Iran International consistently described these deployments using severe terminology, noting that repressive forces and suppressors have commandeered civilian infrastructure. The opposition outlet detailed how IRGC, Basij, and riot police have set up barracks and ammunition caches inside girls' schools in Kermanshah and Babol, a futsal sports hall and children's institute in Tehran, and various mosques. Eyewitnesses reported that in Karaj, suppressors evacuated their official bases to hide in white minibuses and public parks, while heavy military equipment was unloaded at the Sadoughi Hospital in Isfahan.
The source material heavily relies on eyewitness accounts aggregated by Iran International, presenting a highly critical, anti-regime narrative that frequently uses loaded terminology (e.g., suppressors, repressive forces) to describe state security. This terminology has been preserved in English without quotation marks, per translation fidelity instructions. Khorasan Online provides a brief counter-narrative by addressing the banking cyberattacks strictly as administrative technical difficulties, completely ignoring the military context provided by the other channels.