Iran’s Armed Forces begin staging a series of combined retaliatory operations featuring missile and drone strikes targeting regional American bases and interests following the United States’ latest acts of deadly unprovoked aggression against the Islamic Republic.
The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) announced the launch of the operations in a statement on Tuesday.
“Decisive operations by the Iranian Armed Forces in response to the American terrorist enemy began minutes ago,” the Corps said. “US bases and interests across the region are now coming under attack by Iranian missiles and drones,” it added.
The operations follow multiple instance of unwarranted aggression against targets inside the Islamic Republic, especially the country’s southern areas.
Reprisal follows civilian casualties
The latest instance of the aggression featured a missile attack targeting the southern Iranian province of Hormozgan’s Sirik County, where shrapnel hit a residential structure in the city of Kouhestak as the building was hosting a wedding ceremony.
So far, as many as four people have been martyred, including a child, and 50 others wounded.
Earlier attacks had also hit Chabahar and Konarak Counties in Sistan and Baluchestan, another southern Iranian province, and the Larak Island in the Strait of Hormuz, prompting Iranian servicemen to stage a reprisal against US forces stationed in Jordan and the United Arab Emirates.
‘US aggression only complicates Hormuz’s closure’
The IRGC underlined that these attacks have only determined the Islamic Republic to reinforce the closure it has imposed on the Strait of Hormuz in response to previous American violations and “strengthened the resolve of our warriors to crush the foreign forces interfering in Hormuz.”
The ongoing reprisal, it added, “will make the aggressors regret their actions.”
According to the Corps, the first stage of the reprisal has seen Iran’s new-generation aerospace defense system shoot down the 50th advanced MQ-9 drone belonging to the American aggressor.
The statement hailed the popular support that has been staged nationwide for the Armed Forces’ steadfast defense of the country in the face of the aggressors.
“Your continued presence has exhausted and frustrated the American enemy, while the resistance and strength demonstrated by your brave warriors in the Strait of Hormuz have pestered the rulers of the White House,” the IRGC concluded, addressing the public.
