IRGC batters 100 Israeli sites in fresh strikes; Tel Aviv left in blackout
Navy targets occupying regime’s naval fleet, forces US warship to retreat
The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) launched on Wednesday the 61st wave of Operation True Promise 4 to avenge the blood of Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council Ali Larijani by targeting the Israeli positions in the occupied territories.
In a statement released early in the day, the IRGC announced that Tel Aviv, center of the Israeli evil acts, was targeted by Khorramshahr-4, Qadr, Emad, and Kheibarshekan missiles.
Due to the damage to Israeli modern and multilayer defence system, the Iranian missiles easily targeted more than 100 military and security bases in the occupied territories.
The IRGC attacks resulted in blackout in Tel Aviv and caused 230 killed and injured.
“The pure blood of this high-ranking martyr, like other dear martyrs, will be a source of pride, strength, and national awakening in the face of the global arrogance front and international Zionism,” the IRGC said of Larijani, who was assassinated in a US-Israeli air raid on Tuesday.
“Undoubtedly, the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps will never forget the blood vengeance of this most honorable martyr and other martyrs of the sacred defense."
Get away from oil, gas facilities in Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar
The IRGC also issued a warning that it would strike different oil and gas facilties in Saudi Arabia, UAE and Qatar after an attack on Iran's South Pars gas fields.
These facilities have become legitimate targets, the IRGC said, calling on citizens, residents and personnel of those facilities to immedately evacuvate to safer places.
Moreover, Navy Commander Rear Admiral Shahram Irani said that Iran severely targeted the naval fleet of the Israeli regime on Wednesday in retaliation of US and Israeli aggression on Dena destroyer.
Stressing that the two terrorist regimes of US and Israel breached the international law in their heinous aggression against Iran’s Dena destroyer, he said the destroyer had finished its naval mission with the aim of establishing peace and security at seas and oceans.
Iran’s Navy Force will give a crushing response to any enemies’ provocations and movements at the Sea of Oman and its borders, Irani emphasized. “We will never allow enemy to approach the Sea of Oman and also the Iranian borders.”
The Navy also announced in a statement that in response to the heinous crimes committed by the United States, the force fired missiles towards the world’s largest warship -- USS Abraham Lincoln -- concurrent with the funeral ceremony of 84 martyred sailors of Dena destroyer, and forced the warship to leave the region.
The US and the Israeli regime launched their joint military aggression on Iran on February 28, following their previous war against the country in June last year. Both conflicts were launched as Tehran was in the midst of diplomatic talks with Washington over its peaceful nuclear program.
Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei was assassinated in an Israeli airstrike targeting his residence and office in Tehran on the first day of the ongoing aggression.
In response, Iran has carried out targeted, proportionate self-defense strikes against Israeli positions and US regional bases, promising that its counterattacks will continue as long as the two regimes keep up their war of aggression.