It is a response to Israeli killings of Hamas, Hezbollah and IRGC leaders, Tehran has stated
Tuesday night’s missile launch at Israel is Tehran’s response for the current assassinations of the leaders of Hamas, Hezbollah and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, the IRGC has stated.
Iran launched a number of hundred ballistic missiles, in keeping with the Israel Protection Forces (IDF), which additionally claimed to have shot down many of the incoming hearth.
“In response to the martyrdom of Ismail Haniyeh, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah and the martyr Nilforoshan, we struck on the coronary heart of the occupied territories,” the IRGC stated in an announcement launched about half-hour after the primary missiles struck.
“If the Zionist regime responds to our assault, our subsequent strikes might be extra damaging,” the IRGC added.
Haniyeh was the chief of Hamas, who was killed in Tehran in early August. Nasrallah was the long-time chief of Hezbollah, killed in an Israeli airstrike final week. Brigadier Normal Abbas Nilforoshan was the IRGC deputy commander of operations, who was assembly with Nasrallah when Israeli jets collapsed a constructing on their Beirut bunker.
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