section_path: Strikes by Israel/18 June
section_name: 18 June
paragraph_text: 18 June
  
  The IDF said that 50 fighter jets struck around 20 buildings in Tehran, including factories producing raw materials, components and manufacturing systems for ballistic missiles. Iranian media said that the IDF struck an IRGC-affiliated university and a missile factory in Khojir. The IDF also said it have destroyed 70 missile batteries. An unmanned IAF drone fell on Iran after it was shot down; no injuries were reported. Israel also attacked nuclear centrifuge production sites, with the IAEA confirming strikes on Karaj 's TESA Complex and the Tehran Research Complex.
  
  Iranian secret agents arrested five people allegedly affiliated with Mossad, accusing them of being "mercenaries" who "sow fear among the public". The Wall Street Journal reported that, according to an unnamed US official, Israel was running out of Arrow missile interceptors. Iran accused Israel of briefly hacking its television broadcasts and showing a footage of women's protests, calling for Iranians to take to the streets. In an official statement, the Iranian government said: “If you see unrelated images, it is due to satellite signal interference by the Zionist enemy”.
  
  On the morning of 18 June, a loud explosion was reportedly heard in Tehran, but Iranian officials have not confirmed the attack. Israel hit sites in Tehran and issued an evacuation order for people in district 18 of Tehran. Iran's internal security headquarters was destroyed during the attacks, according to Israel. An Iranian Red Crescent building was also reportedly struck. Iranian media reported that Iranian forces shot down a "hostile" F-35 jet in the Javadabad area of Varamin.
  
  IDF chief of staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir said "There is significant and direct learning here from the events of October 7, we are not waiting, we are preventing threats". The IDF published a message in Farsi saying that it is receiving a lot of messages from Iranians which include "fear, despair, and anger over what is happening in Iran" and asked those who wished to avert a similar fate to Gaza and Lebanon to contact Israeli officials through a link on the Mossad website.
  
  In the afternoon, the IDF said that it had struck 40 military targets in western Iran, including a primed Emad missile launcher, missile storage sites, and soldiers, with 25 fighter jets. To date, IDF spokesperson Effie Defrin said that 1,100 targets in Iran had been struck by Israel. He added that five AH-1 helicopters were struck in Kermanshah in the morning. Later, the IDF said that it destroyed three more AH-1 helicopters. The IDF later announced that 60 fighter jets participated in a wave of strikes against 20 targets in Tehran, including weapon manufacturing facilities, centrifuge production sites, and nuclear research and development locations.