TEHRAN (Dispatches) -- Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) said on Wednesday its next "crushing response” to potential enemy missteps has already been planned, days after it struck Daesh positions in Syria with missiles in revenge for the Takfiri group’s terror attacks on the Iranian soil.
On Sunday, the IRGC fired six medium-range ballistic missiles at Daesh targets in Syria’s Dayr al-Zawr in response to a June 7 attack by the outfit against two locations in Tehran, which martyred 18 people.
The strike killed at least 65 Daesh terrorists, including six of the Takfiri group’s commanders, after one of the missiles hit the group’s command center in city of al-Mayadin.
"Whether the missile attacks will recur or not depends on enemies’ behavior. Proportionate to what they may do, a crushing response has been planned, and will be delivered,” IRGC spokesman Ramezan Sharif said.
He said it took just 11 days for IRGC forces to pinpoint the command and planning posts which Daesh used to plot the terrorist attacks in Tehran.
The powerful retaliation, Sharif said, sent across a resounding message to "the terrorists, their regional and international backers, and also all those, who might even consider threatening our country’s national security.”
On Monday, Sharif was quoted as saying that "if they (Daesh) carry out a specific action to violate our security, definitely there will be more launches, with intensified strength."
But the missiles sent a message to more than just the extremists in Iraq and Syria, Sharif told state television in a telephone interview.
"The Saudis and Americans are especially receivers of this message," said Sharif. "Obviously and clearly, some reactionary countries of the region, especially Saudi Arabia, had announced that they are trying to bring insecurity into Iran."