TEHRAN - Iran has continued retaliatory strikes against Israel and American bases in the Persian Gulf in response to the joint U.S.-Israeli aggression against the country.

The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) said in a statement on Monday that it initiated the 55th wave of missile strikes during the retaliatory Operation True Promise 4.

The IRGC said it targeted Tel Aviv and Ben Gurion Airport, including aerospace military weapons production centers and aerial refueling logistical centers with precision-strike, superheavy, and hypersonic Fattah missiles, Qadr and Emad missiles, as well as suicide drones.

The IRGC noted that it has also attacked the U.S. army centers in the Al Dhafra airbase, the Jufair naval base, and the Sheikh Issa airbase with mid-range, solid-fuel precision-strike Fateh missiles, Zolfaqar and Dezful missiles, as well as smart and combat UAVs.

On Monday, Iran’s Army also said it targeted important and strategic centers of Rafael’s arms manufacturing and the (IAI) aviation industries of the Israeli regime with drones. It said the strikes were in response to the “criminal acts of the American-Zionist enemy.”

In the early hours of Monday, the U.S. and Israel carried out fresh deadly strikes against Iran. Several people were killed in a strike on a building affiliated to Tehran’s electricity company in the center of the capital.

Approximately 1,500 people in Iran have been killed since the U.S. and Israel began their airstrikes in Iran. Civilian infrastructure, residential areas, hospitals, and schools across Iran have been bombed in the course of the war.

Senior Iranian military commanders, including Defense Minister Brigadier General Aziz Nasirzadeh, Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces Major General Abdolrahim Mousavi, and Major General Mohammad Pakpour, commander-in-chief of the IRGC, were killed on the first day of the U.S.-Israeli assault on February 28. Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei was also martyred in the same strike targeting his office in Tehran.

In the first hour of the aggression, a U.S. missile also hit an elementary school in the southern Iranian city of Minab. Nearly 170 people, most of them students, were killed.