"IRGC missile attack on Syria's Deir Ezzor region" in retaliation for Tehran's attacks

The Revolutionary Guards, while threatening countries that they called "regional and trans-regional supporters of Takfiri terrorists," announced that in retaliation for the attacks on June 8, Tehran had attacked a center in Syria that the organization said was "the command and support center of Takfiri terrorists" with missiles.

According to Tasnim News Agency, the Revolutionary Guard Corps announced that in retaliation for the attack on the Iranian parliament and the mausoleum of Ayatollah Khomeini, on Sunday evening, June 19, it had attacked with missiles "the command headquarters and centers for gathering, supporting, and manufacturing suicide vehicles of Takfiri terrorists in the Deir Ezzor region in eastern Syria."

According to this report, these "medium-range surface-to-surface" missiles were fired from "IRGC Aerospace Force missile bases in Kermanshah and Kurdistan provinces."

The Revolutionary Guards announced, without specifying the number, that "reports received" indicated that "a large number" of people present at the center had been killed.

Deir Ezzor province is located on the border of Syria and Iraq, on the banks of the Euphrates River. However, this report has not yet been independently confirmed by sources.

Meanwhile, Tasnim News Agency, in a report on the reasons for choosing the location, claimed that "many" members of the Islamic State group "moved to Deir Ezzor in the east and some surrounding areas in Syria" after retreating from Aleppo in Syria and Mosul in Iraq.

The Islamic State group, ISIS, has claimed responsibility for the attack on the Iranian parliament and the mausoleum of Ayatollah Khomeini, which killed 17 people.

However, the Revolutionary Guard did not explicitly name this group in its statement, using the phrase "Takfiri terrorists."

Officials in the Islamic Republic of Iran refer to ISIS and Al-Qaeda groups, as well as individuals who are ideologically close to Salafi groups, as "Takfiri groups."

The IRGC statement warned the group, which it called "Takfiri terrorists," as well as the countries that are called "their regional and trans-regional supporters," that if actions like Tehran's attacks are repeated, "the revolutionary fury and flames of revenge of the IRGC will engulf the perpetrators and perpetrators and lead the criminals to hell."

The institution emphasized that "to protect national security and defeat seditions and anti-security phenomena, they will spare no effort and will put appropriate measures on the agenda."

The statement promised that "additional news" about the IRGC's action would be released.

A number of Islamic Republic officials, including the commander of the Revolutionary Guard Corps and the head of the judiciary, have accused Saudi Arabia of involvement in the attack on the Iranian parliament and the mausoleum of Ayatollah Khomeini, without providing any documentation or evidence and only referring to the former words of the Saudi Defense Minister.

They have also accused Israel and the United States of "supporting" these attacks.

Meanwhile, a day after the Tehran attacks, Gholamali Khoshroo, Iran's permanent representative to the United Nations, wrote a letter to the organization's Secretary-General and the Security Council, calling for attention to the "terrorist" incident in Tehran and the "motivations and collusion" of the perpetrators of these attacks, and implicitly accused Saudi Arabia of playing a role in these attacks.

The Leader of the Islamic Republic also emphasized in his message of condolences that the "definite result" of these attacks "is nothing but increasing hatred of American governments and their agents in the region, such as Saudi Arabia."

This stance by the Islamic Republic's officials comes at a time when, in a video attributed to the perpetrators of the Tehran attacks, one of these individuals threatens that after Iran, it will be the turn of the "House of Saud" (Saudi Arabia).

However, the accusations of the Islamic Republic's officials against Saudi Arabia in this regard continue.

Iranian officials have not provided any evidence for this claim and have only cited the words of the country's former defense minister, who said in an interview with MBC that Iran seeks to dominate Muslim countries and that is why negotiations with Tehran are not possible.

Mohammed bin Salman, the deputy crown prince and Saudi Defense Minister, emphasized in this conversation that Riyadh would not wait for war to come to Saudi Arabia and would instead try to drag the battle to Iran.

Source: Radio Farda