TEHRAN -- A top commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) says only a fraction of Iran’s available military resources were used in the retaliatory airstrikes against Israel last month.
Brigadier General Amir Ali Hajizadeh, the commander of the IRGC’s Aerospace Division, said in an interview that during Iran’s punitive Operation True Promise, the United States, Britain and France came to the help of Israel in a bid to repel Iran’s attacks.
“The Islamic Republic stood against the superpowers and their allies by using only 20 percent of what it had prepared in order to take action against the Israeli regime,” he said.
Hajizadeh said the Zionist regime mobilized all its military resources to counter Iran’s attacks while the U.S. also deployed its aircraft, cruisers and aircraft carriers in support of Israel.
Although Iran had not employed all it had in power, Israel and its allies used all they had in power to counter Iran, he said, adding the U.S., which had previously claimed that it had no intention to intervene, stood by the Zionist regime.
The IRGC general said there are many untold points about the operation, which exposed just a small fraction of Iran’s military prowess.
He attributed the success of the operation to the unwavering determination of Iranian forces and the wise guidelines of Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei.
In a multi-pronged attack, Iran launched late on April 13 hundreds of drones and missiles at the occupied territories in response to the Zionist regime’s aggression on the Iranian diplomatic premises in the Syrian capital of Damascus on April 1.