The Iranian Revolutionary Guards threatened this Tuesday to carry out “devastating attacks” if Israel responds to the missile attack launched by the Islamic Republic.
“If the Zionist regime reacts to Iranian operations, it will face devastating attacks,” the Revolutionary Guards, Iran’s elite army, declared in a statement carried by the Fars news agency.
On Tuesday night, Iran launched a missile attack against the Israeli city of Tel Aviv, according to state media.
Previously, the United States had already warned of an “imminent” attack by Iran against Israel and warned that, if it occurred, it would have “serious” consequences for Tehran.
Iranian media released images online of what they presented as missiles being launched towards Israel.
State television broadcast these images with happy songs and a banner congratulating the “brave Iranian people.”
This is the second attack that Iran has launched against Israel since the one carried out in April, when Tehran claimed to have acted in “legitimate defense” after an attack destroyed its consulate in Damascus, where seven of its soldiers died.
“By launching dozens of ballistic missiles, the Revolutionary Guards aerospace force targeted important security and military targets in the heart of the occupied territories,” the Guardians stated.
Iran has threatened to retaliate against Israel since the head of the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh, was killed in Tehran at the end of July. A death that the Islamic Republic attributes to Israel.
On Tuesday, the Revolutionary Guards claimed to have acted “in accordance with the United Nations Charter” and “after a period of moderation” since the “violation of the sovereignty of the Islamic Republic of Iran,” alluding to the assassination of Haniyeh.
These statements alluded to those recently made by Iranian President Masud Pezeshkian, who maintained that Iran had “tried not to react” to Haniyeh’s death, for fear that this would affect international efforts to establish a ceasefire in the Strip. from Gaza. In that Palestinian territory, the Israeli army and Hamas have been fighting a war since the Islamist movement carried out a major attack in southern Israel on October 7.
The head of Hezbollah, Hasan Nasrallah, was killed on Friday in an Israeli bombing on the southern outskirts of Beirut, a bastion of the armed Shiite movement, financed by Iran.
That bombing also killed General Abas Nilforushan, a prominent commander of the Qods force, in charge of Iran’s foreign operations.
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2024-10-03 04:57:30