Monday’s attack was confirmed one day after a spokesman for the Israel Defense Forces told CNN the military was planning for three more weeks of combat operations against Iran — with “deeper plans” for another three weeks beyond that, if deemed necessary.
“We have thousand of targets ahead,” Brig. Gen. Effie Defrin said told the outlet. “We are ready, in coordination with our US allies, with plans through at least the Jewish holiday of Passover, about three weeks from now [ending at sundown April 9]. And we have deeper plans for even three weeks beyond that.”
The joint US-Israel campaign against Iran entered its third week on Saturday, and Defrin’s comment would extend the war beyond the initial estimation of “four weeks or so” put forward by President Trump March 1.
Israel, the IDF spokesperson insisted, is “not working according to a stopwatch, or a timetable, but rather to achieve our goals” — including “weaken the Iranian regime severely.”
As of Monday morning, the US military had flown more than 6,000 combat flights and destroyed more than 100 Iranian naval vessels.
