Israel says it has aerial superiority over Tehran, Iranian intelligence leader killed

The Israeli military claimed to person obtained "aerial superiority" implicit Tehran connected Monday, arsenic airstrikes launched by the Jewish authorities killed 4 elder Iranian quality officials. 

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said it has degraded Iranian aerial defenses and rocket systems to the constituent that Israeli planes tin present operate implicit Tehran without facing large threats. It said Israel present controls the skies from occidental Iran to Tehran.

According to the Israeli military, "precise intelligence" from the IDF allowed Israeli Air Force (IAF) combatant jets to onslaught a operation successful Tehran wherever respective elder officials from Iranian quality were located. The onslaught eliminated Head of the Intelligence Organization Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Mohammad Kazemi, his lawman Mohammad Hassan Mohaqiq, Head of the Quds Force Intelligence Directorate Mohsen Bakri, and his lawman Abu al-Fadl Nikouei, the IDF said Monday.

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An Israeli onslaught connected the Shahran lipid depot connected June 15, 2025, successful Tehran, Iran.  (Stringer/Getty Images)

"These officials played a cardinal relation successful shaping Iran’s strategical assessments and readying violent attacks against Israel, the West, and countries successful the Middle East," the IDF said. 

Kazemi, who has held the presumption since 2022, "was liable for counterintelligence, espionage, and targeting opponents of the Iranian authorities wrong Iran," according to the IDF. "In his role, Kazemi oversaw quality gathering for violent activities and the monitoring of Iranian citizens to suppress dissent and sphere the Iranian regime." 

The Israeli subject said Hassan Mohaqiq "previously chaired the Strategic Intelligence Department and played a cardinal relation successful the regime’s violent operations against Israel, the West, and countries successful the Middle East."

Bakri and al-Fadl Nikouei "were chiefly liable for operational and quality enactment to members of the Iran’s Axis of Terror, including Hezbollah, Hamas, the Houthis, and militias successful Iraq," and they some "played a important relation successful Iran’s efforts to reestablish its beingness successful Syria and supported Hezbollah’s subject buildup successful Lebanon," the IDF said.

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A elephantine billboard featuring Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps fighters and imagery is seen during an anti-Israel rally successful downtown Tehran connected June 14, 2025.  (Morteza Nikoubazl/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Monday’s announcement "marks a important stroke to the Iranian regime’s quality apparatus and its quality to transportation retired violent attacks against the State of Israel," the IDF said. This comes aft the IDF said its strikes killed the Head of the Intelligence Directorate successful the Iranian Armed Forces General Staff past Friday.

The IDF has destroyed one-third of the Iranian regime’s rocket launchers since archetypal launching its large-scale preemptive onslaught past Thursday, IDF spokesperson, Brigadier General Effie Defrin, said Monday. 

The IAF destroyed much than 20 surface-to-surface missiles Sunday nighttime earlier they were astir to beryllium launched toward the State of Israel, Defrin said. 

Israel's aerial unit completed respective waves of strikes overnight, targeting astir 100 subject targets successful Isfahan successful cardinal Iran. 

"In these strikes, much than 20 missiles were simultaneously struck, minutes earlier they were to beryllium launched toward Israel’s location front," Defrin said. "In 1 of the strikes, aft a rocket motorboat compartment was identified successful real-time attempting to motorboat surface-to-surface missiles toward the State of Israel, the IAF eliminated the motorboat compartment and destroyed the missiles." 

Rescue workers, constabulary and subject officers inspect the tract wherever an Iranian rocket struck successful Bnei Brak, adjacent Tel Aviv, Israel, Monday, June 16, 2025.  (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Meanwhile, Iran fired a caller question of rocket attacks connected Israel aboriginal Monday, triggering aerial raid sirens crossed the country. Israeli exigency services reported at slightest 8 killed and dozens much wounded successful the 4th time of the conflict.

Powerful explosions, apt from Israel’s defence systems intercepting Iranian missiles, rocked Tel Aviv soon earlier dawn, according to the Associated Press. Plumes of achromatic fume roseate into the entity implicit the large coastal city.

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The latest salvo comes aft a play of escalating tit-for-tat attacks betwixt Israel and Iran that raised fears of a wider, much unsafe determination war.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.