Tehran [Iran], March 8 (ANI): The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) announced the start of its 27th offensive under Operation True Promise 4, saying it was aimed at American and Israeli positions in response to what it described as a new wave of “unprovoked US-Israeli aggression towards the Islamic Republic,” Iranian state broadcaster Press TV reported.
The IRGC said the latest phase comprised integrated drone and missile barrages, with missile counter-offensives directed at Israeli military infrastructure in northern occupied territories. The Corps stated these strikes used newly developed solid-fuel missiles from its Aerospace Division.
“In this strategic and multidimensional operation, Zionist military targets in [the occupied city of] Haifa were struck by the IRGC’s Aerospace Division’s new solid-fuel Kheibar-Shekan missiles, which possess terminal guidance capability up to the point of impact,” the announcement said.
Press TV also reported that unmanned aerial systems were used to strike a site housing American personnel. The IRGC said drone units “successfully targeted the location where American forces are stationed in ‘Marina,’ in the vicinity of the buildings of the ‘Warner Brothers’ company.”
Simultaneously, the IRGC Navy said it engaged facilities linked to the US Fifth Fleet in Bahrain, striking the command centre for unmanned surface vessels and military support hangars at Salman Port, which it described as belonging to “American terrorist forces.”
The Corps claimed its monitoring indicates the Israeli administration is “attempting to create a human shield to protect its military personnel by confining residents of the occupied territories to northern and central areas.” Press TV reported that ongoing retaliatory strikes have resulted in continuous emergency sirens across the region, with the IRGC saying the atmosphere in the occupied territories had shifted into a state of “siren after siren.”
The military statement warned that the Iranian Armed Forces are prepared for a long-term escalation and that their units “are lying in wait for American forces with precision and planning.”
Operation True Promise 4 began immediately after foreign strikes last Saturday. Since then, the IRGC has said it launched hundreds of ballistic missiles and suicide drones at strategic interests, including targets in Tel Aviv, the “holy occupied city of al-Quds,” and the technology centre of Be’er Sheva. Earlier reports also claimed engagements against the US aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln and a destroyer in the Indian Ocean. (ANI)
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