Iran’s Revolutionary Guard threatened this Tuesday to carry out “devastating attacks” if Israel responds to the missile launch.
“If the Zionist regime reacts to Iranian operations, it will face devastating attacks,” declared the Revolutionary Guards, Iran’s elite army, in a statement carried by the Fars news agency.
Other pro-Iran armed factions in Iraq spoke along the same lines, warning that US bases and interests in Iraq and the Middle East would be a “target” if Iran were attacked.
“If the Americans undertake hostile action against Iran or if the Zionist enemy uses Iraqi airspace to bomb Iranian territory, all American bases and interests in Iraq and the region will be a target for us,” declared the Organ of Coordination of the “Iraqi Resistance.”
On Tuesday night, Iran launched a missile attack on the Israeli city of Tel Aviv, according to state media.
On Tuesday night, Iran launched a missile attack on 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 2024, when Tehran claimed to have acted in “legitimate defense” after an attack destroyed its consulate in Damascus, where seven of its soldiers died.
Retaliation against Israel
“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 Hamas movement, Ismail Haniyeh, was killed in Tehran at the end of July 2024. A death that the Islamic Republic attributes to Israel.
This 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 territory, the Israeli Army and Hamas, considered a terrorist organization by several countries, have been waging war since this Islamist group carried out a major attack in southern Israel on October 7.
The head of Hezbollah, Hasan Nasrallah, was killed on Friday, September 27, 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.
For its part, the Hamas group celebrated the Iranian attack against Israel and stated that it was launched in response to the death of the leader Haniyeh and the head of the Lebanese Hezbollah group, Hasan Nasrallah.
“The Islamic resistance movement blesses the heroic rocket launches carried out by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards against large areas of our occupied lands,” the Palestinian group said in a statement. The attack was launched “in revenge for the blood of our heroic martyrs,” he added.
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