Israel put hundreds of warplanes on alert to confront Iran op.: IRGC cmdr.
A senior commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) says the Israeli regime put hundreds of warplanes on alert to confront Iran’s retaliatory strikes last month.
“Around 221 warplanes were put on alert to prevent Iran’s strikes,” Brigadier General Amir Ali Hajizadeh, commander of the IRGC’s Aerospace Division, said in the north-central Iranian city of Qom on Thursday.
The multi-pronged strikes saw the Iranian Armed Forces launching dozens of drones and missiles towards the occupied territories late on April 13. The retaliation, dubbed Operation True Promise, inflicted heavy damage on Israeli military bases across those territories.
The operation came in response to the regime's aggression against the Iranian diplomatic premises in the Syrian capital Damascus on April 1. The aggression had led to the martyrdom of two generals of the IRGC’s Quds Force, Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Zahedi and General Mohammad Hadi Haji Rahimi, as well as five of their accompanying officers.
“The usurping [Israeli] regime’s recourse to the atrocity was a miscalculation,” Hajizadeh said, adding, “They [had] presumed that Iran would not respond to their atrocity, and that the [regional] resistance force would take action instead of Iran.”
The commander noted that the Islamic Republic deployed only “20 percent” of its military might during the operation.
“The Israeli regime and the United States (Israel’s biggest ally) equipped the regional countries to defend Israel [in the face of the Iranian operation] as means of preventing the damage that the Iranian response could cause,” he said.
Iran 'True Promise' punctured several 'air defense' systems as 10 countries aided Israelhttps://t.co/pG883A0zbv
— Press TV 🔻 (@PressTV) April 29, 2024
The commander, meanwhile, noted that the history of the region had now been “divided into before and after Operation True Promise,” adding that the Iranian retaliation had served to “hearten the [regional] resistance axis” in its struggle against the occupying regime.
IRGC intelligence forces bust Takfiri terrorist team in western Iran
Iran Navy to take delivery of modern homegrown vessels, weapons
IRGC commando dies of wounds suffered during anti-terror drills in SE Iran
Leader: Iran has no proxy forces in West Asia
US fighter aircraft shot down ‘in friendly fire’ amid aggression on Yemen
Yemeni FM: Israel’s sponsors accountable for ongoing aggression on Sana’a
Eight Palestinians killed as Israel attacks Gaza school, hospitals
VIDEO | Rome, Milan host new protests in solidarity with Palestinians
Dec. 21: ‘Axis of Resistance’ operations against Israeli occupation
Spain jurists demand ties with Israel ties be cut
VIDEO | Press TV's news headlines
PressTV NEWSLETTER
now
This makes it easy to access the Press TV website
