True Promise 4: Iran and resistance axis ops. against US-Israeli assets on Mar. 13

Iranian armed forces and resistance groups across the region continued retaliatory military operations against the United States and the Israeli regime on Friday, March 13, 2026.

“Press TV Website Staff Iranian armed forces and resistance groups across the region continue to carry out retaliatory military operations against the United States and the Israeli regime”

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The operations were carried out as part of Operation True Promise 4, which was launched immediately after the US-Israeli coalition carried out an unprovoked act of aggression against the Islamic Republic of Iran on February 28.

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Iranian armed forces have so far carried out 46 waves of missile and drone strikes with advanced weaponry targeting Israeli military facilities in the occupied territories, as well as US occupation bases and assets scattered across the West Asia region.

The Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement and the Islamic Resistance in Iraq have also joined the front against the external aggressors, inflicting heavy blows on the enemy.

The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) reported multiple strikes and interceptions on March 13, saying in cooperation with the Islamic Resistance in Iraq it downed an American military KC-135 refueling aircraft with six crew on board near the Saudi border in western Iraq.

The IRGC described its 43rd wave, code-named "Ya Shadid al-Iqab," as an attack on the US Navy's Fifth Fleet base, other US military bases in the region, the heart of Tel Aviv in the north of the occupied territories, and Eilat, using precision-guided heavy Khorramshahr missiles with two-ton warheads, Qadr missiles with multiple warheads, Emad missiles with one-ton warheads, Kheibar Shekan missiles with one-ton warheads, and a number of suicide drones.

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The IRGC said the US aircraft carrier "Abraham Lincoln" sustained significant damage after being targeted by missiles and drones and withdrew from the region.

The IRGC also reported multiple interceptions of armed drones (including MQ9 and Hermes types) and gave varying totals for downed drones in the campaign, listing 111, later 113, and saying it shot down 4 drones of various types on Friday.

The Iranian Army said it targeted the headquarters of the Israeli regime’s military forces in Bir Al-Sabi with a barrage of suicide drones in memory of Martyr Lieutenant General Seyyed Abdolrahim Mousavi, noting Bir Al-Sabi as the location of strategic military installations and infrastructure of the Israeli military, including bases related to ground and air forces.

“Press TV Website Staff Iranian armed forces and resistance groups across the region continue to carry out retaliatory military operations against the United States and the Israeli regime”

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The Army reported it had targeted and destroyed five more invading enemy drones in the past 48 hours.

The Army gave a total number for drones destroyed since the beginning of the aggression of 109, saying this figure reflects interceptions using the air defense systems of the Army and the IRGC under the command of the country's Joint Air Defense Headquarters.

The article includes differing drone totals reported elsewhere, which the source presents without reconciliation.

Hezbollah said its fighters struck multiple Israeli military sites and troop gatherings in northern occupied Palestine and along the border in response to what it called Israeli aggression that affected dozens of Lebanese cities and towns and the southern suburb of Beirut.

Hezbollah listed strikes on Nimr Al-Jamal opposite Alma Al-Shaab, rocket barrages on Maroun al-Ras, Kiryat Shmona, Hadab al-Ajal, Qibal al-Qamh, Shraga and Yiftah barracks, Al-Marj opposite Markaba, sites near the Khiam detention center, Tel Al-Hamames, Khallat al-Asafir, Kfar Giladi, Even Menachem, Nahariya, Meron surveillance and air operations base, Kabri, and the Givat drone control base east of Safad, reporting the use of rocket barrages, artillery shells and swarms of attack drones.

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The Islamic Resistance in Iraq reiterated cooperation with the IRGC in downing a KC-135 refueling aircraft with six crew, said a second KC-135 was struck west of Iraq but its crew escaped and it made an emergency landing at one of the Israeli airports, and reported a drone strike on Israeli-American interests in Erbil, northern Iraq.

The source frames these operations as responses and as part of Al-Quds Day operations and warnings issued by the resistance.