Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) launched extensive missile and drone strikes late Saturday night on the occupied territories, marking the first time the Islamic Republic employed such weapons against real targets.
The series of retaliatory strikes, dubbed Operation True Promise, inflicted damage on Israeli military bases across the occupied territories.
Sources informed Press TV that the Israeli regime and its supporters failed to intercept any of the hypersonic missiles fired by Iran.
Iran is among few countries that possess the technology to produce hypersonic missiles which can travel at stunning speeds and hit their targets with great precision.
Iran’s hypersonic missiles are highly maneuverable, enabling them to have an unpredictable flight path in order to confuse the enemy’s missile shields.
The chief of staff of the Iranian Armed Forces Major General Mohammad Bagheri said on Sunday that Iran hit a large intelligence base in the occupied lands and Israel’s Nevatim Airbase, from where an F-35 jet took off to target Iran’s diplomatic premises in Damascus.
He added that the strikes “reached its goals” as the regime’s so-called Iron Dome system failed to deal with the Iranian missiles and drones properly.
The IRGC’s operation was carried out in retaliation for a missile attack by Israel on Iran’s diplomatic premises in the Syrian capital of Damascus earlier in April.
The terrorist attack drew categorical condemnation from senior Iranian political and military leaders, who vowed “definitive revenge.”
During a speech in Tehran on Wednesday after leading the Eid al-Fitr prayers, Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei said the Israeli regime “must be punished and will be punished” for its deadly strike on the Iranian diplomatic premises.
The Leader added, “The evil Zionist regime committed another mistake … and that was the attack on the Iranian consulate in Syria. The consulate and diplomatic missions in any country are considered to be the territory of that country. When they attack our consulate, it means they have attacked our soil.”
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