Powerful missiles were fired at the United States’ Al Udeid airbase in Qatar as part of Operation Harbinger of Conquest on Monday evening.
The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (I.R.G.C.) said in a statement that the headquarters of the United States Air Forces Central Command, the United States’ largest strategic asset in West Asia, was being hit.
The I.R.G.C. said Iran’s message to the White House and its allies was clear: By relying on God the Almighty, and backed up by the Iranian people, the Islamic Republic of Iran would under no circumstances leave a violation of its territorial integrity, sovereignty, and national security unanswered.
With the United States’ strikes on Iran, the I.R.G.C. said, it was made clear that the Israeli aggression against Iran was in line with an American conspiracy. “Therefore, we would like to remind that in [Iran’s] act of national defense, America’s bases and moving military targets in the region are not this warmongering regime’s strength but its huge weakness and Esfandiar’s eye (Achilles’ heel).”
The I.R.G.C. added in its statement that any new U.S. strikes on Iran would “precipitate the dismantling of America’s military pillars in the region, their humiliating escape from West Asia, and the realization of the shared aspiration of the Islamic world and the freedom-seeking nations of the world to eliminate the cancerous tumor of Zion.”
The Supreme National Security Council (S.N.S.C.) said in a separate but simultaneous statement that the number of the missiles fired at the United States’ Al Udeid airbase in Qatar equaled the number of bombs the U.S. military had used to target Iranian nuclear facilities.
The United States carried out strikes against three Iranian nuclear facilities on Sunday, becoming a direct party to a war of aggression that the Israeli regime started against Iran on June 13. Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei had already warned the United States that its intervention would bring America “irreparable harm.”
The Israeli regime attacked Iran, including residential buildings in Tehran, in an unprovoked act of aggression overnight on June 13. Top Iranian military officials were assassinated in targeted strikes. Civilians died when houses were directly struck. Entire population centers were affected.
Ayatollah Khamenei appointed new military commanders later that same day and said life would turn bleak for Israel. Shortly afterwards, the Iranian Armed Forces promised to “open the gates of hell” to Israel and began waves of punitive strikes inside the Israeli-occupied territories, hitting sensitive sites in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, and Haifa, among other cities, with salvos of missiles and drones.
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