IRGC Missiles Destroy Daesh Bases, Mossad Center

TEHRAN -- The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) said Tuesday it struck Syrian bases of terrorists involved in recent attacks in Iran as well as an Israeli espionage center in the Iraqi Kurdistan region with barrages of ballistic missiles.
The first missile strike targeted gathering places of commanders and main elements of recent terrorist attacks in the Iranian cities of Kerman and Rask.
It added that the strike came after gathering points of the Daesh terrorist group were identified in the occupied territories of Syria and destroyed with a number of ballistic missiles.
The takfiri group claimed responsibility for two explosions that killed nearly 100 people and wounded scores of others at a memorial for Iran’s top anti-terror commander Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani in the southeastern Iranian city of Kerman on January 3.
Last month, another terrorist attack hit a police station in the southeastern Iranian city of Rask, martyring 11 police officers and injuring at least six others.
The IRGC said in a later statement that another missile strike has been launched at a main espionage center of the Israeli regime’s Mossad spy agency in the Iraqi Kurdistan Region.
It said the strike was a sign of the IRGC’s full intelligence superiority over the Zionist regime’s bases and activities in the region.
The IRGC added that its missile strike on the Iraqi Kurdistan Region had totally destroyed the Mossad center there.
It noted that the Mossad center was used “to develop espionage operations and plan acts of terrorism” across the region, especially in Iran.
The missile strike against the Mossad center, the statement said, was in retaliation for the recent assassinations of the resistance front’s commanders, especially those of the IRGC, by the Zionist regime.
The IRGC also assured “the great nation of Iran” that it will find “the malicious terrorist groups” that are active against the Iranian nation “wherever they are and will punish them for their shameful deeds.”
The Iranian foreign ministry said the strikes were part of the “just punishment” against violators of Iran’s security after a deadly terrorist attack hit the city of Kerman.
“The action was in defense of the country’s sovereignty and security, and countering terrorism, and was a part of the Islamic Republic’s just punishment against violators of the country’s security,” ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani said.
“The Islamic Republic has always supported

peace, stability, and security in the region and respected other countries’ sovereignty, nonetheless, Tehran will not hesitate to exercise its legitimate and legal right to deter all sources of threats against its national security, defend its citizens and punish the criminals,” Kanaani said.

He said the terrorist attacks that took place in Iran resulted from a “miscalculation by the enemy”, adding the Islamic Republic launched “a targeted operation” against positions of terrorists using “precise projectiles” after it identified them drawing on its high intelligence capabilities.

“Terrorism is a global threat, and Iran is determined to counter-terrorism within the framework of joint regional and international cooperation,” Kanaani added.

The IRGC added that its missile strike on the Iraqi Kurdistan Region has totally destroyed the Mossad center there.

Among the key targets was Azhi Amin, a former member of an Al-Qaeda affiliate, who was reportedly killed in the IRGC operation.

The missile strike against the Mossad center, the statement said, was in retaliation for the recent assassinations of the resistance front’s commanders, especially those of the IRGC, by the Zionist regime.

Brigadier General Amir-Ali Hajizadeh, the commander of the IRGC’s Aerospace Division, said two dozen missiles were launched from three Iranian provinces during the operation.

According to his remarks, four Kheibar-Shekan missiles were launched from southern Khuzestan to a terrorist position in Syria’s Idlib province.

During a phone call with the chief commander of the IRGC Major General Hussein Salami, Hajizadeh said “At 12 o’clock, everything was done successfully.”

Hajizadeh also said that four ballistic missiles were fired from Kermanshah and seven others from East Azarbaijan to the Mossad spy center.

Meanwhile, he said about nine more missiles targeted other terrorist groups in Syria.

Daesh claimed responsibility for two explosions that martyr nearly 93 people and wounded scores of others at a memorial for Iran’s top anti-terror commander General Qassem Soleimani in the southeastern Iranian city of Kerman on January 3.

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has said the cause of the terrorist bombings in Kerman can be traced back to the grudge that Zionists hold against Gen. Soleimani as he jeopardized the plans to establish another Israel in the region by creating and backing Daesh terrorist group.

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IRGC Missiles Destroy Daesh Bases, Mossad Center