WASHINGTON D.C (VINnews) – U.S. Central Command’s top officer directed a strike on an underground Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps headquarters near Tehran while an airman rescue operation was underway, high-level U.S. sources said.
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Adm. Brad Cooper ordered B-2 bombers to hit the IRGC facility using Massive Ordnance Penetrators, the same heavy bunker-busting weapons employed in Operation Midnight Hammer, the sources told Fox News.
The strike targeted an underground site near the Iranian capital, according to the account. Details on the timing and outcome of the operation were not immediately available.
The disclosure comes amid heightened U.S. military actions against Iranian targets in the region. Cooper, as CENTCOM commander, has overseen multiple strikes involving B-2 stealth bombers and other assets against Iranian facilities.
The Pentagon and Central Command had no immediate comment on the reported IRGC headquarters strike.
it would be interesting to hear the thoughts behind such a strike. clearly, it diverted attention away from the area of the rescue, and destroying another element of the regime’s power structure is a good idea.
but was the irgc headquarters directing the battle? do they still have the means to command and control units in the field? and how was the bombing coordinated with the rescue – were the b-2s operating from a base in the gulf?