2024-04-18 04:16:57
After the mIran’s official website will confirm the attack underway against Israel, it has announced the cclose its airspace starting at 3:30 p.m. Mexico time.
Iranian state television announced early Sunday that the Revolutionary Guards, the ideological army of the Islamic Republic, launched an attack with “drones and missiles” against Israel.
“In response to the numerous crimes committed by the Zionist regime, including the attack on the consular section of the embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Damascus and the martyrdom of a group of our country’s commanders and military advisors in Syria, the force The air force of the Aerospace Force of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps fired dozens of missiles and drones against specific targets within the occupied territories,” they mentioned in the Iranian media.
The operation, called “honest promise,” was “launched with the approval of the Superior Council of National Security and under the supervision of the General Staff of the Armed Forces,” he said on television, indicating that the details would soon be “made known.” of the heroic people of Iran and freedom fighters around the world.”
Since this attack, other countries such as Iraq have also closed their airspace.
Iran had threatened retaliation for the bombing of its consulate in Damascus on April 1, which killed two of its generals and which it blamed on Israel.
The escalation comes against the backdrop of the war between Israel and Hamas, in power in the Gaza Strip, triggered by a bloody raid by Islamist commandos into southern Israel on October 7.
The White House indicated that “this attack is likely to unfold over several hours” and added that the United States “will stand with the people of Israel.”
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