The four Russian-made S-300 anti-aircraft missiles that Israel reportedly destroyed in Israeli strikes on Iran — one in April and three more this month — were the only such systems the Islamic Republic had since the beginning of this year. , reports the American network Fox News.

The Wall Street Journal also reported that all of Iran’s existing S-300 arrays have now been destroyed.

Fox News cites an unnamed senior Israeli official as saying that “the majority of Iran’s air defenses have been disabled.”

US President Joe Biden’s senior adviser on the Middle East, Amos Hochstein, is reported to have said that “Iran is essentially naked” and vulnerable to possible future airstrikes.

Israel has previously been reported to have also eliminated other air defenses around key energy facilities, as well as hitting drone manufacturing sites and key long-range missile manufacturing facilities containing solid fuel mixers that will take at least a year to replace, hampering Iran’s ability to repeat its two massive rocket attacks on Israel this year.

Fox News adds that Israel also hit radar systems used to guide such missiles during attacks on the Jewish state.

His chief of staff IDF Lt. Gen. Herchi Halevi warns that if Iran fires ballistic missiles at Israel again, then the military will respond using “capabilities that we did not use” in the strikes last week.

“If Iran makes the mistake of launching another barrage of missiles at Israel, we will again know how to get at Iran, even with capabilities that we didn’t use this time and hit very, very hard both the capabilities and the places we left behind,” he tells crews at Ramon Air Base in southern Israel.

“We did this for a very simple reason – because we might be asked to do it again. We have not finished this event, we are right in the middle of it,” Halevi adds.