Iran’s army threatens Israel if it responds to its attack – DW – 02/10/2024

The Iranian Revolutionary Guards threatened this Tuesday (01/10/2024) that they would carry out “devastating attacks” if Israel responded to the missile launch.

In a statement carried by the Fars news agency, Iran’s elite military Revolutionary Guards declared, “If the Zionist regime reacts to Iranian operations, it will face devastating attacks.”

Other pro-Iranian armed groups in Iraq also spoke along similar lines and warned that US bases and interests in Iraq and the Middle East would be “targets” if Iran was attacked.

“If the Americans take hostile actions 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 targets for us,” said the Iraqi resistance. The coordination organ announced. ,

According to government media, Iran launched a missile attack on the Israeli city of Tel Aviv on Tuesday night.

Earlier, the United States had already warned of an “imminent” attack by Iran against Israel and warned that if it happened, it would have “serious” consequences for Tehran.

Iranian media released photos online of missiles being launched toward Israel. State television broadcast these images accompanied by joyous songs and banners congratulating the “brave Iranian people”.

It is the second attack by Iran against Israel since an attack in April 2024, when Tehran claimed to be acting in “legitimate defense” after its embassy in Damascus was destroyed, killing seven of its soldiers. They went.

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“By launching dozens of ballistic missiles, the Revolutionary Guards Aerospace Force struck key security and military targets in the heart of the occupied territories,” the Guardians said.

Iran has threatened to retaliate against Israel following the assassination of Ismail Haniyeh, the head of the Hamas movement, in Tehran in late July 2024. A death which the Islamic Republic attributes to Israel.

This Tuesday, the Revolutionary Guards pointed to Haniyeh’s killing, claiming that they had taken action “in accordance with the UN Charter” and “after a period of restraint” since it “violated the sovereignty of the Islamic Republic of Iran.”

These statements point to recent statements made by Iranian President Massoud Pezeshkian, who said that Iran had “tried not to react” to Haniyeh’s death, out of fear that it would jeopardize the establishment of a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip. International efforts will be affected.

In that region, there is a war going on between Israeli forces and Hamas, considered a terrorist organization by many countries, after the Islamist group launched a major attack in southern Israel on October 7.

Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah was killed on Friday, September 27, in an Israeli bombardment on the southern outskirts of Beirut, home to the Iran-funded armed Shia movement.

The bombing also killed General Abbas Nilforoushan, a key commander of the Quds Force, in charge of Iran’s foreign operations.

For its part, the Hamas group celebrated the Iranian attack against Israel and said it was launched in response to the deaths of leader Haniyeh and Hassan Nasrallah, head of the Lebanese Hezbollah group.

“The Islamic Resistance Movement blesses the heroic rocket launch carried out by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards against large areas of our occupied land,” the Palestinian group said in a statement. He said the attack was carried out “to avenge the blood of our brave martyrs”.

MG (AFP, Reuters)