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Israel's subject said it was striking Iran's Basij paramilitary unit successful its positions astir Tehran connected Tuesday, aft announcing it had killed the unpaid militia's apical commander.
"The aerial unit has attacked, successful caller hours, soldiers and positions of the Basij portion that were deployed passim Tehran," Israel's aerial unit posted online on with a video of what it said was a strike.
Iran-Israel war updates connected March 17, 2026
Earlier Tuesday (March 17, 2026), Israel had announced that it had killed Basij commandant Gholamreza Soleimani successful an aerial strike, astatine the aforesaid clip arsenic it said it had assassinated Tehran's nationalist information main Ali Larijani.
Iran's Revolutionary Guards aboriginal confirmed Soleimani's death, but the authorities successful Tehran person not yet confirmed that Larijani was killed.
In different statement, Israel's subject said it identified a "renewed deployment of Basij forces," describing these fighters arsenic "operating from posts embedded wrong nationalist areas successful the bosom of Tehran".
The subject launched caller strikes targeting "more than 10 antithetic posts crossed Tehran".
"The caller strikes, alongside the elimination of the unit's commander, Gholamreza Soleimani, inflict important and ongoing harm to the capabilities of the Basij unit," the connection added.
The strikes against the Basij are portion of Israeli efforts to loosen the power of the authorities and unfastened the mode for a fashionable uprising against the clerical establishment.
In caller days the Israeli subject has said it was striking checkpoints acceptable up by the unit astir Tehran.
The Basij are accused of playing a cardinal relation successful the bloody crackdown connected caller wide protests successful Iran successful which rights groups accidental thousands of radical were killed.
