{"id":339099,"date":"2026-03-14T14:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T14:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/339099\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T14:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T14:38:08","slug":"israel-strikes-irans-space-research-center-air-defense-factory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/339099\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel Strikes Iran&#8217;s Space Research Center, Air Defense Factory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                            Israel Strikes Iran&#8217;s Space Research Center, Air Defense Factory\n                        <\/p>\n<p>Israel said on Saturday that it carried out strikes on key military-related facilities in Tehran, including the country\u2019s main space research center and a factory involved in producing air defense systems.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Israel Defense Forces, the targeted space research facility housed laboratories used for scientific work as well as for developing military satellites designed for surveillance, intelligence gathering and fire direction across the Middle East, <a href=\"https:\/\/caspianpost.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Caspian Post<\/a> reports, citing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/liveblog\/202603119917\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Iranian media<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Israeli military also said it struck several locations linked to Iran\u2019s air defense production network, including a major factory responsible for manufacturing air defense systems.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/caspianpost.com\/search?query=IDF\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">IDF<\/a> added that the operation forms part of a wider campaign aimed at weakening what it described as Iran\u2019s core military infrastructure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Israel Strikes Iran&#8217;s Space Research Center, Air Defense Factory Israel said on Saturday that it carried out strikes&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":339100,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[111023,85,46,43],"class_list":["post-339099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-caspian-post","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}