ERBIL, Kurdistan Region of Iraq – Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said early Wednesday that they had used hypersonic missiles in their latest attack against Israel as the conflict between the two archfoes enters its sixth day.

The IRGC said that they had struck Israel “using first-generation Fatah missiles,” Iran’s first hypersonic missiles, “on the 11th wave of the proud Operation True Promise III." The missile is designed to reach hypersonic speeds and change its course midflight in order to evade even advanced air defense systems like Israel’s Iron Dome and Arrow.

The IRGC went on to claim that the attack has shown “that we have gained complete control over the skies of the occupied territories,” adding that the hypersonic missiles “repeatedly shook the Zionist cowards' refuge.”

The claims come against the backdrop of US President Donald Trump seeming to be growing “increasingly warm" to using US military assets to strike Iranian nuclear facilities and shifting away from pursuing a diplomatic solution. Trump cut a meeting of the G7 countries’ summit short earlier on Tuesday and convened a meeting of his Security Council, after which he called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, according to Axios, citing an Israeli official.

The president on Tuesday, in a post on his Truth Social network, said that the US demands Iran's "unconditional surrender," with Trump having previously lauded the efficacy of US weapons employed by Israel and chastized the Iranians for failing to come to a nuclear accord with Washington.

The conflict raged on in the early hours of Wednesday, with both sides carrying out attacks on each other. Israel struck Iran’s Khojir missile production site and the Imam Hussein University (IHU) in eastern Tehran, while footage made the rounds in international media as the two countries directed salvos of missiles toward one another.