Iran’s top military leaders are vowing an overwhelming response to Saturday’s Israeli airstrikes that hit Tehran’s air defenses and ballistic missile production facilities.
In separate interviews on Thursday, the commander and deputy commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps insisted that the country’s armed response to the “aggression of the Zionist regime” is certain.
“We have not left any aggression unanswered since more than 40 years ago. We can target everything the Zionists have in one operation,” Gen. Ali Fadavi, the IRGC’s deputy commander, told Iran’s Mehr News Agency.
His boss, Maj. Gen. Hossein Salami, said Israel is mistaken if it believes it can “change history” by launching an attack on Iran. During an event in the southern province of Fars, he spoke about Oct. 1, when Iran launched about 200 ballistic missiles at Israeli targets in the largest attack of the Iran-Israel conflict.
“The Zionists have not forgotten how the Iranian missiles streaked across the sky while the Israeli air defense missile systems failed to counteract,” he said, according to the IRGC-affiliated Tasnim News Agency.
Israel’s air defense system along with U.S. Navy guided-missile destroyers in the region intercepted most of the Iranian missiles. Officials in Jerusalem said the attack didn’t cause extensive damage to their military sites.
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