The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has struck more than 100 targets in the city of Tel Aviv in retaliation for the martyrdom of Dr. Ali Larijani, Iran’s former top security official, during unprovoked American-Israeli aggression against the country.

In a statement on Wednesday, the IRGC announced hitting the targets during the 61st wave of its ongoing retaliatory Operation True Promise 4 in the face of the aggression.

The hostile objects, it added, were targeted using multi-warhead Khorramshahr-4 and Qadr missiles as well as Emad and Kheibar Shekan projectiles as a means of avenging the martyrdom of Dr. Larijani, the former secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC), the statement read.

“During these intense lightning strikes, the Khorramshahr-4 and Qadr missiles hit more than 100 military and security targets in the heart of the occupied territories without facing any obstruction,” it added.

The IRGC put the facility characterizing this stage of the reprisal down to “the disintegration of the Zionist regime’s multilayered and highly advanced air defense systems.”

It cited field information as pointing to taking place of a “partial blackout” in Tel Aviv as a result of the reprisal that also resulted in the regime’s forces’ having a harder time controlling the situation at hand and rescuing those affected.

The Corps, meanwhile, said Operation True Promise 4 had so far either killed or injured more than 230 Zionists.

The retaliation began following the launch of Washington’s and Tel Aviv’s most recent bout of unlawful aggression towards the Islamic Republic.

In addition to Tel Aviv, it has targeted sensitive and strategic enemy objects in the holy occupied city of al-Quds, the occupied port of Haifa, Be’er Sheva, which serves as the regime’s technological epicenter, and the Negev Desert.

American outposts across the region, including those lying in Qatar, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, and Saudi Arabia, have also faced intense reprisal.

Source: Press TV

The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has launched its massive 58th wave of retaliatory missile and drone strikes against Israeli positions and United States military bases.

The massive barrage, conducted in the framework of “Operation True Promise 4,” was initiated in the morning, said the force in a statement.

This highly successful, “effect-based operation” was explicitly dedicated to “all the martyred children of the Ramadan War,” noted the statement.

The military statement emphasized that the strike specifically honors the victims of the “Minab school” massacare and the youngest casualty of the ongoing conflict, a three-day-old infant named “Mojtaba,” who was killed along his family last night in Arak, centeral Iran.

To execute this sweeping operation, Iranian forces utilized a formidable arsenal of highly accurate, pinpoint-striking, and super-heavy weaponry.

This included the Khorramshahr missile equipped with a 2-ton warhead, the multi-warhead Ghadr, and the advanced Fattah and Kheibar Shekan missiles. Medium-range systems such as the Fateh and Qiam, alongside a swarm of destructive suicide drones, were also deployed.

The sophisticated assault targeted a wide array of strategic locations across the northern and central parts of the occupied territories, including Nahariya, Beit Shemesh, Tel Aviv, and West Quds.

Furthermore, the strikes heavily pounded the regional positions of the terrorist US army, directly hitting American bases in Victoria, Ali Al Salem, and Al Kharj, as well as the US Navy’s 5th Fleet.

The sheer scale of the 58th wave triggered widespread panic across the occupied lands.

Warning sirens blared continuously in Tel Aviv, Ashdod, Bat Yam, and 136 other locations across the occupied territories.

According to demographic estimates, the massive Iranian missile barrage forced approximately 4,330,000 occupiers to rush to bomb shelters.

This fierce military retaliation falls strictly within the framework of the Iranian Armed Forces’ legitimate response to a large-scale and unprovoked war launched by Washington and Tel Aviv.

The deadly US-Israeli campaign began on February 28 with the cowardly assassination of the former Leader of the Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei, alongside several high-ranking military commanders.

That unprovoked aggression was launched despite ongoing, indirect negotiations between Tehran and Washington regarding Iran’s peaceful nuclear program.

Since the outbreak of the war, US and Israeli forces have carried out extensive aerial strikes on both military and civilian installations across Iran, resulting in significant casualties—including the massacred schoolchildren in Minab.

In response to these ongoing atrocities, Iran has maintained a relentless campaign of massive missile and drone attacks, firmly targeting US interests in the region and Israeli positions throughout the occupied territories.

Source: Press TV

Iran’s security chief has warned of plots to stage a false flag attack similar to the September 11 attacks and blame it on Iran, saying while the Islamic Republic is firmly punishing the aggressors, it fundamentally opposes such terrorist attacks.

“I’ve heard that the remaining members of Epstein’s network have devised a conspiracy to create an incident similar to 9/11 and blame Iran for it,” Ali Larijani, secretary of the Supreme National Security Council of Iran, wrote in a post on his X account on Sunday.

He made clear that Iran fundamentally opposes such terrorist schemes and has no war with the American people.

According to Larijani, Iran is currently defending itself against the aggression of the United States and Israel. “Of course, in this defense it is acting very strongly and resolutely in order to punish the aggressors,” he added.

The remarks came after the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) roundly dismissed any connection to a series of drone strikes targeting positions in the Saudi capital Riyadh and the energy-rich Eastern Province, urging Saudi authorities to fully investigate their origin.

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi also clarified that the Iranian Armed Forces “only American bases and interests in the region.”

In an interview with Al-Arabi Al-Jadid, Araghchi speculated that the Israeli regime may have targeted non-military areas in neighboring Arab countries to destroy their relations with Iran.

Source: Presstv

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi says US attacks on two Iranian islands in the Persian Gulf that took place overnight on Saturday originated in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and he warns that Iran will definitely respond. 

Araghchi said on Saturday that the US military used populated areas in the UAE to fire on Kharg, an island that houses Iran’s oil‑export terminals, and on Abu Musa, a strategic island at the mouth of the Strait of Hormuz.

“Last night they attacked Kharg Island and Abu Musa Island with the artillery‑rocket system HIMARS, which is a short‑range rocket system,” he said.

“They launched these rockets from the soil of our neighbors. It is crystal clear they are using our neighbors’ territory to attack us, and this is absolutely unacceptable.”

The minister said Iranian military forces tracked the attacks, which he said came from Ras Al Khaimah and a location very close to Dubai.

Araghchi added that firing from densely populated areas is a very dangerous practice, and while Iran will definitely respond, it will exercise utmost caution to avoid striking residential buildings.

“What we are doing within the framework of legitimate defense is targeting American bases, facilities, assets and interests, which unfortunately are located in the territories of our neighbors,” he said.

The attacks on Kharg and Abu Musa did not hit Iranian energy facilities but caused losses at military sites on the two islands.

Iran has previously responded to similar attacks and warned that if oil or electricity production facilities are targeted, it will launch massive strikes on all energy facilities in Persian Gulf countries where the United States has interests.

Source: Press TV

Hezbollah leader Naim Qassem said on Friday his group was ready for a long confrontation with Israel, as the latter threatened to make Lebanon pay an “increasing price” in damage to infrastructure.

Lebanon was drawn into the Middle East war last week when the Tehran-backed militant group attacked Israel in response to the killing of Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in US-Israeli strikes.

“We have prepared ourselves for a long confrontation, and God willing, they (Israelis) will be surprised on the battlefield,” Qassem said in his second televised address since the latest war began.

“This is an existential battle, not a limited or simple battle.”

Israel on Friday destroyed a bridge over the Litani River between the towns of Zrariyeh and Tayr Falsay, according to Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency. The river bisects southern Lebanon, from east to west.

In a statement, the Israeli military described the bridge as a “key crossing” for Hezbollah “from northern to southern Lebanon, to build up its power and prepare for combat”.

The attack was the first on Lebanese public infrastructure to be acknowledged by Israel since the start of the Middle East war.

“This is just the beginning and the Lebanese government and the state of Lebanon will pay an increasing price in damage to Lebanese national infrastructure used by Hezbollah terrorists,” Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz said on Friday.

He said Lebanon would suffer “loss of territory — until it fulfils its central commitment of disarming Hezbollah”.

Earlier this week, Lebanese President Joseph Aoun offered to negotiate directly with Israel, but on Friday he said he had not received a response.

The Israeli military bombed several roads in southern Lebanon on Friday, according to the official National News Agency, blocking access from the north of the Litani River and from the Bekaa valley, an eastern area Hezbollah uses to transport weaponry.

The NNA also reported that Israeli shells hit the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon’s Nepalese battalion in the border town of Mays al-Jabal.

Source: AFP