IRGC commander awarded after strike on Israel
Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has conferred the Order of Fat’h (Conquest) on Brigadier General Amir-Ali Hajizadeh, the commander of the IRGC’s Aerospace Division.
The order is granted to warriors with dramatic victories. The awarding on Sunday came after Iran’s launch of 180 ballistic missiles at Israeli military and intelligence bases in the Tel Aviv area on Tuesday, Press TV reported.
“The awarding of the order is in recognition of the brilliant Operation True Promise,” Iran’s news agencies reported.
The medal consists of the likeness of three palm leaves on top of the grand mosque of Khorramshahr in southwest Iran as a symbol of resistance, the flag of Iran and the word fat’h.
In April, Iran launched hundreds of drones and missiles against Israel, in an unprecedented attack that came as a response to the occupying regime’s raid on the Iranian consulate in Syria.
On Tuesday, the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps launched 180 ballistic missiles at two Israeli airbases housing F-35 and F-15 warplanes as well as the Mossad headquarters in retaliation for the regime’s assassination of Hamas and Hezbollah leaders and a top IRGC commander.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has described the attacks as being “among the largest in history.”
“Iran has twice fired hundreds of missiles” towards the territories, he said of the retaliation in a video message that was released on Saturday.
Back in April too, the country had fired more than 300 missiles and drones against the territories in an operation codenamed True Promise in reprisal for deadly aggression by the regime against Iranian diplomatic facilities in the Syrian capital of Damascus.