SaharaReporters reported earlier that Iran had launched about 200 ballistic missiles to Israel, citing Israel Defense Forces (IDF), which also claimed to have shot down most of the incoming fire.
Iran has stated that Tuesday’s missile launch at Israel is its response for the recent assassinations of the leaders of Hamas, Hezbollah and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
SaharaReporters reported earlier that Iran had launched about 200 ballistic missiles to Israel, citing Israel Defense Forces (IDF), which also claimed to have shot down most of the incoming fire.
But in a statement, shortly after the first missile struck, IRGC said in a statement that it is in response to terrorist activities of Israel on Iranian interest, and warned of a more devastating response if there's any further reaction.
“In response to the martyrdom of Ismail Haniyeh, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah and the martyr Nilforoshan, we struck at the heart of the occupied territories,” the IRGC said as quoted by RT.
“If the Zionist regime responds to our attack, our next strikes will be more destructive,” the statement added.
Haniyeh was the leader of Hamas and was killed in Tehran in early August. Nasrallah was the long-time leader of Hezbollah and was killed in an Israeli airstrike last week.
Brigadier General Abbas Nilforoshan was the IRGC deputy commander of operations who was meeting with Nasrallah when Israeli jets collapsed a building on their Beirut bunker.
The Iranian mission to the United Nations in a message on its X account, “Iran’s legal, rational, and legitimate response to the terrorist acts of the Zionist regime—which involved targeting Iranian nationals and interests and infringing upon the national sovereignty of the Islamic Republic of Iran—has been duly carried out.
“Should the Zionist regime dare to respond or commit further acts of malevolence, a subsequent and crushing response will ensue. Regional states and the Zionists’ supporters are advised to part ways with the regime.”
Iran’s legal, rational, and legitimate response to the terrorist acts of the Zionist regime—which involved targeting Iranian nationals and interests and infringing upon the national sovereignty of the Islamic Republic of Iran—has been duly carried out. Should the Zionist regime…
— I.R.IRAN Mission to UN, NY (@Iran_UN) October 1, 2024