The Israeli military destroyed an Iranian space center and an aircraft belonging to the late Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in Tehran, while the IRGC claimed to have shot down a US-Israeli Heron drone.
Israeli forces conducted targeted aerial strikes in the Iranian capital, destroying a military space facility and an aircraft associated with the recently assassinated Iranian Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei. Concurrently, Iranian forces claimed to have intercepted a hostile drone over Tehran.
The Qatar-funded network Al Jazeera, which frequently covers regional conflicts with a critical stance toward Israel, relayed official statements from the Israeli military detailing the operations. According to the Israeli Army, the Air Force destroyed a space center in Tehran that was "used to develop offensive capabilities to target satellites."
In a separate operation, the Israeli Air Force targeted Tehran's Mehrabad Airport. Al Jazeera reported that the strike destroyed an aircraft previously used by the former Iranian Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei. The explicit designation of Khamenei as the "former" leader aligns with his assassination earlier this month during the initial waves of the US-Israeli military campaign against Iran.
Meanwhile, the Beirut-based, pro-Iran network Al Mayadeen focused its reporting on Iranian defensive countermeasures. Quoting the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), the channel stated that Iranian air defenses successfully shot down a "Heron" drone in the skies over Tehran. Maintaining its anti-Western and anti-Israeli editorial framing, Al Mayadeen reported that the IRGC attributed the downed drone to the "Israeli-American aggression."
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