Baqeri stresses that Iran has “exercised self-restraint” despite the Israeli air strikes on Iran’s capital Tehran on 31 July, which killed Palestinian Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh. However, patience ran out after the assassination of Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah and top Iranian commander Abbas Nilforoushan, the commander said in a speech on Wednesday.
– After Martyr Haniyeh’s assassination, Iran went through a tough period of self-restraint amid repeated requests by the Americans and Europeans, who would ask us to exercise self-restraint so they would establish a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, Bagheri said.
The Iranian Revolutionary Guard’s Tasnim News agency further described the rocket attacks as a response to “the regime’s ongoing deadly aggression against Gaza and Lebanon”.
Air bases and intelligence services
Targets are said to have included three of the Israeli regime’s main air bases, the headquarters of the Mossad intelligence service, which the major describes as a “center for terrorism”, the Nevatim air base, which is said to house Israel’s F-35 warplanes, and the Hatzerim base, which is said to have been used to facilitate the assassination of Nasrallah.
Other targets mentioned are Israel’s strategic radar, “the centers housing the regime’s tanks and personnel carriers” and “the center accommodating those of the regime’s forces that partake in massacres against Palestinians in Gaza”.
A warning to the US
The military chief concludes that Iran’s capabilities are far greater than those revealed by True Promise II, and warns that, if necessary, “tonight’s operation would be repeated with multiple magnitude”.
The commander expresses hope that the US would withdraw its support for Israel “so the region could move towards experiencing calm” and that in the event of direct US intervention, “a powerful and regret-inducing response against their centers and interests across the region” is to be expected.
