After having accused Israel and the United States of orchestrating a terror attack on the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps and the Iranian army during a military parade in Ahvaz Iran on Monday made good on its promise of a “devastating response”.
The response, however, wasn’t directed at Israel or US forces in the Middle East but at the Islamic State terror group which earlier claimed responsibility for the attack.
Early Monday morning, the IRGC launched 6 ballistic missiles to attack one of Islamic State’s last strongholds in the Deir Ez-Zur province in eastern Syria, while it used 7 Saegheh ‘stealth’ drones in a follow-up attack at “terrorist positions and support infrastructure.”
The terror attack in Ahvaz, which occurred on Sept. 22, killed some 40 Iranian soldiers and IRGC members and wounded dozens of others, leading the IRGC to vow it would deliver a “crushing act of revenge” in the near future “both within the region and beyond it.”
At the same time, Iran accused Israel, the United States and the United Arab Emirates of backing the terrorists.
The unprecedented Iranian attack on the Islamic State hubs near the Syrian Iraqi border took place close to positions of US Special Forces in eastern Syria, but drew no response from the American military.
The Israeli air force apparently took into consideration that the 7 Saegheh drones could be used for an attack on the Jewish State and scrambled fighter jets which patrolled the skies in northern Israel shortly after the Iranian attack in Deir Ez-Zur.
On February 10th of this year, the IAF shot down the same type of drone in the area of the Galilee town of Beit Shean near the Jordanian Israeli border.
Iranian media later published photos of one of the Zolfaqar and Qiam missiles used in the attack - which have ranges of respectively 700-750 and 750-800 km – revealing that the IRGC had painted ‘death to Israel’, ‘death to America’ and ‘death to Saudi Arabia’ on the projectile.
Another slogan which appeared on the missile was “fight the followers of Satan” a quote taken from the Quran. READ MORE
