Israel’s military said it struck targets in central Iran on Monday, including internal security command centres and missile launch sites, in the first raid since the Islamic republic appointed a new supreme leader.

“The Israeli Air Force… completed an additional wave of strikes on infrastructure across Iran belonging to the Iranian regime,” a military statement said.

The targets included “a rocket engine production facility and several long-range ballistic missiles launch sites” that threatened Israel, it said.

The internal security headquarters in the central city of Isfahan, a police headquarters and other facilities used by the Revolutionary Guards and paramilitary Basij force were also hit, according to the military.

“The Internal Security and Basij forces… constitute a central arm in the repression of the Iranian civilian population and are responsible for the use of brutal and systematic violence against it,” the statement said.

It added that the latest strikes were part of “deepening the damage to the core arrays and foundations of the Iranian regime”.

This was the first wave of strikes Israel has announced since Tehran named Mojtaba Khamenei as the Islamic republic’s supreme leader late on Sunday.