“If the Israeli regime is unable to intercept missiles in the heavily protected Dimona area, it is, operationally, a sign of entering a new phase of the battle,” Iran’s Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said on X before word of the Arad strike spread. The Pentagon declined to comment on the strike on Natanz, which was also hit in the first week of the war and in the 12-day war last June. The head of U.S. Central Command, Adm. Brad Cooper, asserted that Iran’s ability to attack vessels on the strait had been “degraded.” He said 5,000-pound (2,270-kilogram) bombs were dropped earlier in the week on an underground facility along Iran’s coast used to store anti-ship cruise missiles and mobile missile launchers.
Author: Samy Magdy, Melanie Lidman, Jill Lawless, The Associated Press
Published at: 2026-03-21 23:34:42
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