The Israeli military said its fighter jets had struck "dozens" of targets across Iran on Sunday, including a long-range missile site in Yazd in the centre of the country for the first time.
A statement said that "approximately 30 IAF (air force) fighter jets struck dozens of military targets throughout Iran" -- including "the 'Imam Hussein' Strategic Missile Command Center in the Yazd area, where long-range Khorramshahr missiles were stored".
The statement also confirmed strikes on missile launchers in Bushehr province, where a "massive explosion" was reported by Iranian media on Sunday, as well as in Ahvaz in the southwest and central Isfahan.
Isfahan is home to a uranium conversion facility targeted by more than two dozen missiles fired from a US submarine in the Middle East overnight.
Earlier Sunday, military spokesman Effie Defrin vowed there would be no let-up in Israel's offensive against Iran despite overnight US strikes on Iran's nuclear sites which President Donald Trump claimed had been "obliterated."
"We are continuing and are determined to achieve the objectives of the operation: eliminating the existential threat to the state of Israel, damaging Iran's nuclear programme and destroying its missile systems," Defrin said.
The military statement said Israeli fighter jets had also targeted a drone command centre and surface-to-air missile facilities.
In earlier statements, the Israeli military said it had attacked sites in western Iran and also destroyed two ageing F-5 fighter jets from the 1960s or 70s in Dezful airport in the west of the country.
Israel claims it has destroyed more than half of Iran's missile launchers as it seeks to stem daily barrages from the Islamic republic.
Israel's highly sophisticated air defences have kept Israeli towns and cities relatively safe, successfully shooting down hundreds of Iranian ballistic missiles and drones that would otherwise have caused widespread devastation.
Some have slipped through, however, with three new impacts reported on Sunday morning in coastal hub Tel Aviv, Haifa in the north and another in Ness Ziona, south of Tel Aviv.
At least 23 people were injured, according to rescue services.
A total of 24 people have been killed in Israel since the country attacked Iran on June 13, while 1,272 people have been injured, 14 seriously, according to the latest figures from the military.
AFP
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