Israel and the United States launched Operations Roaring Lion and Epic Fury on February 28. They said the operations aimed to create conditions for regime change in Iran. An Israeli strike on a bunker in Tehran killed Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's defense minister and several IRGC generals, according to the base report. The report called it the Israeli Air Force's largest-ever aerial operation.
The account lays out the opening operations, the deaths of senior Iranian leaders and Iran's subsequent missile attacks in direct sequence. Israel and the United States stated their objective; Iran answered with attacks across the Middle East. The report offers no further details about the strike's weapons or the bunker beyond its location in Tehran.
Iran's Retaliatory Missile Attacks
Iran retaliated with missile attacks on Gulf states and U.S. military bases in the region. Since February 28, ballistic missile attacks on Israel killed 39 IDF soldiers and 23 civilians, and injured at least 7,693 others, the report said. Those figures capture the human cost in Israel of the attacks that followed the operations' launch.
CENTCOM said 18 U.S. soldiers also died. The reported casualties include Israeli military personnel, Israeli civilians and U.S. troops. The account gives no separate dates for each death or injury, and it doesn't identify the specific Gulf states or U.S. bases targeted. It does establish that Iran's retaliation reached sites across the region, including Israel and U.S. military installations.
The sequence is stark. Israel and the United States announced operations aimed at creating conditions for regime change; an Israeli strike killed Iran's supreme leader and other senior officials; Iran launched missiles across the Middle East. Those attacks killed and injured people in Israel and killed U.S. soldiers. The report gives these figures: 39 IDF soldiers and 23 civilians killed in Israel, at least 7,693 injured there, and 18 U.S. soldiers killed, according to CENTCOM.
Ceasefire Took Effect April 8
A ceasefire was announced on April 7 and took effect the following day. The report provides no terms for the ceasefire and doesn't describe how the announcement came about. It marks the latest stated development after the operations and missile attacks.
The account offers no more information about Iranian leadership after the strike, the locations of missile impacts, or whether the ceasefire ended all attacks. It does report the central facts: the stated aim of the U.S.-Israeli operations, the killing of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and other Iranian officials in Tehran, Iran's retaliatory missile attacks, the reported casualties, and the ceasefire's effective date. The casualty figures and the announced ceasefire are the report's clearest measures of the conflict's toll and its current stated status.