"Separately, the military said on Friday that the IDF had earlier hit an Iranian chemical weapons research facility.

The IDF did not clarify if this meant that Iran possessed chemical weapons or whether the Islamic Republic was still at the research stage.

Iran's IRGC vows retaliation

Following the attacks, which Iran asserted were on "industrial centers," the IRGC vowed retaliation on industrial companies in the Middle East that had American shareholders or were aligned with Israel."