Iran threatens ‘crushing attacks’ if Israel responds

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Iran threatens ‘crushing attacks’ if ******* responds

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards threatened to carry out “crushing attacks” against arch-foe ******* if it retaliates for a missile ******* by the Islamic republic on Tuesday.

“If the Zionist regime reacts to Iranian operations, it will face crushing attacks,” the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said in a statement carried by the Fars news agency.

The IRGC said the ******* was “in accordance with the ******* Nations Charter”.

It said the missile ******* came “after a ******* of restraint” following an “******* on the sovereignty” of Iran — a reference to the ******** of ****** leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran in late July.

The IRGC said the missile attacks targeted “three military bases” around Tel Aviv as well as air and radar bases, adding that “90 percent” of the missiles “hit their targets”.

The ******* States had earlier warned of an imminent Iranian ballistic missile ******* on *******, and said it would have “severe” consequences for Tehran.

Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian hailed the country’s “decisive response” to what he called the ******** “aggression”.

Iranian media carried online footage of what they said were missiles being fired at *******.

State television played upbeat music over the footage as its newscaster spoke of “the brave Iranian people”.

It broadcast images of residents of Iran’s second city Mashhad celebrating the missile ******* in the streets, waving the yellow flag of Hezbollah and portraits of the Lebanese group’s slain chief Hassan Nasrallah.

– Gaza ceasefire efforts –

Similar celebrations also took place in the capital Tehran and in several provincial cities.

Tuesday’s ******* was Iran’s second on *******, after a missile and drone ******* in April in retaliation for a deadly ******** air strike on Iran’s consulate in Damascus.

Nearly all of the missiles and drones fired in that ******* were intercepted by ******* or its allies.

An ******** air strike on Beirut on Friday ******* Nasrallah, whose militant group has been armed and financed by Iran for years.

Nasrallah was ******* alongside General Abbas Nilforoushan, a top commander of the Quds Force, the IRGC’s foreign operations arm.

Iran vowed that Nilforoushan’s ******** would “not go unanswered”.

At last month’s UN General Assembly in New York, Pezeshkian accused ******* of warmongering as Iran exercised restraint.

He suggested Tehran had held back retaliation for Haniyeh’s ********, fearing that it could derail US-backed efforts for a ceasefire in the Gaza war.

“We tried to not respond. They kept telling us we were within reach of peace, perhaps in a week or so,” he said.

On Sunday, Pezeshkian said promises by the ******* States and its allies of a “ceasefire in exchange for Iran’s non-reaction to Haniyeh’s ******** were completely false”.

He added that “giving these ********** (*******) a chance would only encourage them to commit more *******”.

Iran does not recognise *******, and has made support for the ************ cause a centrepiece of its foreign policy since the Islamic Revolution in 1979.

Tehran hailed its ally ******’s October 7 ******* on *******, which triggered the Gaza war, but denied any involvement.

Regional tensions have soared since the outbreak of the Gaza war, drawing in Iran-aligned groups from Lebanon, Iraq, Syria, and Yemen.

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