Head of the Revolutionary Guards Aerospace Force Brigadier General Amir Ali Hajizadeh has stated that the 8 January missile attack on American bases in neighbouring Iraq was only the start of a series of attacks that will take place across the entire region, Tasnim News Agency reported.
The general further shared that the country had hundreds of missiles ready for launch, when it carried out strikes and added that Tehran conducted cyberattacks on the same day against American plane and drone navigation systems.
At the same time, Hajizadeh revealed that Iran didn't plan to kill any US soldiers on 8 January, saying the country had targeted the American "military machine" instead. The Iranian general noted that driving out US forces from the Middle East would be the only "appropriate revenge" for their assassination of Quds Force Commander Qasem Soleimani on 3 January.
Tehran's attack on US military facilities in Erbil and the Ayn al-Asad Air Base in Iraq came as a response to Washington's assassination of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Quds Force Commander Qasem Soleimani in an airstrike on 3 January that Iranian leaders subsequently branded a "terrible crime" and "state terrorism".
Iran's Guards warn of 'harsher revenge' after missile strikes on U.S. targets: agency
A Revolutionary Guards commander said Iran would take "harsher revenge soon" after Tehran launched missile attacks on U.S. targets in Iraq in retaliation for last week's U.S. killing of an Iranian general, Tasnim news agency reported on Thursday.
The agency was quoting senior commander Abdollah Araghi, speaking after U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that Iran appeared to be "standing down" after the missile strikes that did not harm any U.S. troops in Iraq.
In a separate report, Tasnim quoted the deputy Guards head, Ali Fadavi, as saying Iranian missile attacks on U.S. targets were a display of Iran's military power and said U.S. forces "couldn't do a damn thing."
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