'Strategic assets of Iranian axis' - IDF claims Qom strike disrupted command, ‘secret nuclear HQ' destroyed, Hezbollah 'paying heavy price'

"IDF spokesperson Brigadier General Effie Defrin said the Israeli Air Force had targeted Iran’s secret ‘Min Zadai’ underground nuclear facility on Tuesday, among other ‘strategic assets,’ including a building in Qom where the council was due to meet to select new Supreme Leader of Iran. Defrin added that the Israeli airforce had dropped 4,000 munitions in about 1,600 sorties across Iran since the launch of Operation Rising Lion on Saturday. “Today, we have surpassed the amount of munitions that the IDF dropped in any operation. In the last 24 hours, hundreds of fighter jets and UAVs of the Air Force went on more than 300 consecutive strike sorties in Iran and in Lebanon,” he noted. He said the military had also hit a site in Qom aimed at disrupting Iran’s command-and-control system, preventing the regime from restoring its leadership capabilities. “We are still assessing the results of the impact, and if there are outcomes, we will update,” he confirmed. The IDF said it also struck a Hezbollah operational headquarters and the Radwan Force in Lebanon, while also killing the commander of the Iranian Quds Force's Lebanon Corps, Daoud Ali Zadeh, in Tehran. “Any enemy that stands with the Iranian regime and tries to harm Israeli citizens will be harmed,” he added, saying Zadeh had been attacking Israel from Lebanon. "Hezbollah is the one that chose to join the campaign against Israel and is now paying a heavy price for it." This comes as Israel has begun its ground incursion into Lebanon as the war widens. Israel and Hezbollah have traded strikes since Monday. Israel launched attacks on southern Lebanon and Beirut's southern suburbs, saying it was responding to Hezbollah strikes. The group said it was retaliating for the death of Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, killed in US and Israeli strikes."