TEHRAN (Dispatches) -- Iran will keep its military advisors in Syria, the head of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) said on Wednesday, as he issued a grave warning to the occupying regime of Israel which has threatened to target Iranians if they do not leave the Arab country.
Zionist PM Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday that Israeli forces would attack Iranians in Syria and warned them "to get out of there fast, because we will continue with our resolute policy”.
Rebuffing the threats, Major General Muhammad Ali Jafari, the IRGC’s top commander, said that "the Islamic Republic of Iran will keep all its military and revolutionary advisers and its weapons in Syria.”
"We will maintain all the military and revolutionary advisers as well as the equipment and weapons, which we have for training and empowering the Islamic resistance’s warriors and for supporting the oppressed people of Syria, in that Islamic nation.”
Jafari called Netanyahu’s threats "a joke”, and warned that the Zionist regime "was playing with a lion’s tail.”
"You should be afraid of the day that our precision-guided missiles roar and fall on your head,” he said.
"Be sure, we do not take into account your ridiculous threats,” the Iranian commanded said. "You know that if we have chosen to wait against your hostile measures, some considerations lie behind it.”
Iran and Russia have both backed Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in a seven-year war against terrorists and militants, with Tehran sending military advisors to the country.
General Jafari said what Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Qasemi meant by recently saying that "Iran has no military forces in Syria” was that Iran has no military units there.
"You (Zionist officials) know very well that the Iranian military units are so mighty and impressive that if you witnessed even one of them in Syria, you would be horrified and give up the ghost.”