Press Briefing by IDF Spokesperson, BG Effie Defrin-June 22, 2025

Good evening,

We’ve just concluded a significant 24 hours in the battle against the Iranian regime. Throughout the day, we continued to deepen the degradation of its capabilities, carrying out a wide-scale strike on missile production sites belonging to the IRGC deep inside Iran. Today, for the first time, we struck in the area of Yazd, hitting surface-to-surface missile warehouses approximately 2,200 kilometers from Israeli territory.

These strikes are part of our broader effort to degrade the Iranian weapons program and the regime’s missile production industry.

Yesterday, IAF fighter jets, guided by the Intelligence Directorate, struck a mixing and casting site belonging to the IRGC in the Shahroud area, deep inside Iran.

This site manufactures engines for surface-to-surface missiles that pose a threat to the State of Israel.

Additionally, we struck planetary mixers. These are critical machines used in the production of engines for missiles launched by the regime toward Israel. Their neutralization significantly disrupts their production capabilities.

The targeting of the site is part of the broader effort to degrade Iran’s missile industry.

Just as we are acting against the nuclear threat, we are also acting against the missile threat.

We are targeting production components that form the infrastructure surrounding the threat itself.

We continue to strike at the Iranian regime’s aerial defense array capabilities. In doing so, IAF aircraft are expanding the scope of strikes inside Iran and targeting the regime’s missile launching capabilities.

Earlier today, the IAF completed strikes on all Iranian bases from which missiles were launched toward Israeli territory.

However, the regime still retains capabilities. We saw that this morning. The combination of adherence to the Home Front Command guidelines and our strong Aerial Defense Array significantly reduces the damage.

The Iranian nuclear program has sustained significant damage as a result of our strikes as well as the US strike carried out this morning. The impact is deep. We continue to collect intelligence, together with our allies, to assess the extent of that impact.

We have objectives in this operation. We remain committed and determined to achieve them. At the same time, IDF troops and commanders continue operating in Gaza. Currently, four divisions are operating in the Gaza Strip - our troops are eliminating terrorists, dismantling infrastructure, and steadily advancing the ground operation, according to a well-structured and organized plan. The Southern Command continues to lead the combat plans in Gaza with determination and professionalism, in order to realize the objectives of the war: bringing the hostages home and dismantling Hamas.

Earlier today, we informed the families of hostages Yonatan Samerano, Ofra Keidar, and SSGT Shay Levinson that their bodies have been recovered and returned to Israel for burial. We are all with you in this difficult hour.

Even now, the mission of returning the hostages remains a moral imperative that guides us. We will not relent and we will not stop working to achieve their return.

I will continue to update you with every development.

That’s all for now, questions?

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