Iran’s Strategic Missile and Drone Strikes on “Zionist terrorist army in the occupied territories”

Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has launched “extensive” strikes against the occupied territories in response to the Israeli regime’s terrorist attack of April 1 against the Islamic Republic’s diplomatic premises in the Syrian capital of Damascus.

The Corps announced launching retaliatory missile and drone strikes in a statement on the night of Saturday April 13, defining the mission as “Operation True Promise.”

“In response to the Zionist regime’s numerous crimes, including the attack on the consular section of Iran’s Embassy in Damascus and the martyrdom of a number of our country’s commanders and military advisors in Syria, the IRGC’s Aerospace Division launched tens of missiles and drones against certain targets inside the occupied territories,” the statement read.

In a subsequent statement, the IRGC said the retaliation came after 10 days of “silence and neglect” on the part of the international organizations, especially the United Nations Security Council, to condemn the Israeli aggression or punish the regime in line with Article 7 of the UN Charter. Iran then resorted to the retaliatory strikes, the IRGC added, “using its strategic intelligence capabilities, missiles, and drones” to attack “targets of the Zionist terrorist army in the occupied territories, successfully hitting and destroying them.”

The statement also warned the United States that “any support or participation in harming Iran’s interests will result in a decisive and regrettable response by the Armed Forces of the Islamic Republic.”

“Furthermore, America is held responsible for the evil actions of the Zionist regime, and if this child-killing regime is not restrained in the region, it will bear the consequences,” it noted.

The Corps concluded the statement by cautioning third countries against letting their soil or airspace be used for attacks against the Islamic Republic.

(Press TV)