TEHRAN -- The spokesman of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) said Monday 10 countries supported the occupying regime of Israel during Iran’s Operation True Promise, but they failed to repel the retaliatory attack.
“During Iran’s punitive operation -- dubbed Operation True Promise -- 10 countries offered defensive aid to the Zionist regime,” Brigadier General Ramazan Sharif said.
Following the operation, Iran succeeded in achieving a victory over offensive systems of prominent countries in the world, he added.
In a multi-pronged attack, Iran launched late on April 13 hundreds of drones and missiles at the occupied territories in response to the regime’s aggression on the Iranian diplomatic premises in the Syrian capital of Damascus on April 1.
The Israeli regime’s aggression on the Iranian diplomatic facilities in Syria drew widespread condemnation from the international community.
The IRGC spokesman further said no country wanted Iran to gain success in its military operation against Israel but the whole Iranian nation overwhelmingly supported the national move.
After 50 years, Iran slapped in the face of Israel so hard that they could not believe it, Sharif added.
He said Iran carried out its retaliatory strikes against Israel by using domestically-manufactured weapons, adding, “Operation True Promise was not a military exercise, but the scene of a real operation.”
The operation was conducted in such a large scale that the Tel Aviv regime and its allies should spend a lot of time thinking about it, the IRGC commander emphasized.
He also stressed that the military operation was not a surprise action since the Zionist regime and its allies were waiting for the attack when the first drone was fired but they could not do anything.
Sharif said Iran is now a secure country thanks to the Sacred Defense and great efforts by its armed forces and the guidelines of Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei.
“No one dares to attack our country,” he pointed out.