Iran's Revolutionary Guards announced Friday they had launched a combined missile and drone offensive against Israel, conducted jointly with Tehran-backed Hezbollah.
The joint offensive marks yet another chapter in the rapidly escalating confrontation between Israel and the Iran-Hezbollah axis © INPD
Iran's Revolutionary Guards announced Friday they had launched a combined missile and drone offensive against Israel, conducted jointly with Tehran-backed Hezbollah.
The Guards stated in an official communiqué that the operation was launched in the framework of this symbolic occasion , which took on a particularly charged dimension Friday morning after an Israeli airstrike near Tehran hit close to the route of a pro-regime rally, disrupting what was meant to be a show of defiance by the Islamic Republic's supporters.
The joint offensive marks yet another chapter in the rapidly escalating confrontation between Israel and the Iran-Hezbollah axis, as Tehran seeks to demonstrate that despite the devastating losses inflicted by Operation Epic Fury , the US-Israeli strikes launched on February 28, it retains the capacity and the will to strike back.
By framing the attack within the "Day of Support for Palestinians," the Revolutionary Guards are attempting to wrap a military operation in ideological legitimacy, even as Iran's own capital comes under Israeli fire and its supreme leader lies dead.
The message from Tehran is clear: the war goes on. Israel's response is likely to be equally unambiguous.
Iran has warned the United States that it would respond forcefully to an Israeli offensive on a mountainous ridge in southern Lebanon where Iranian military personnel are holed up alongside Hezbollah fighters, three officials briefed on the message told Reuters.
President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that the renewed U.S. campaign against Iran would not continue for "too long" after the biggest exchange of fire between Tehran and Washington since July.
Top aides to President Donald Trump are pushing to keep the Iran war from escalating before November's midterm elections to staunch Republican electoral losses, four people familiar with the discussions said, a strategy already under strain as the U.S. and Iran exchanged back-and-forth attacks overnight.
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