IRGC reveals details of revenge attack on terrorists
Tehran (KNA) - The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has released new details on its missile strike on the positions of terrorists behind a recent attack in southwest Iran.
The early Monday blitz targeted terrorist positions to the east of the river Euphrates, near Albu Kamal town on Syria's eastern border with Iraq.
The IRGC said the attack was a response to the "cowardly" act of terror during a military parade in the southwestern city of Ahvaz on September 22, which killed 25 people and injured 69 others.
"We ensure our dear compatriots that, as it has been said repeatedly, the armed forces view Iran's national security as their red line" and the IRGC, as well as the country's Army, police and intelligence arms, would respond to enemy violations with an "iron fist," it added.
The operation, dubbed The Muharram Strike, saw the IRGC's Aerospace Force fire a total of "six medium-range ballistic missiles" from western Iran at targets 570 kilometers (355 miles) away, it said.
American military forces are also stationed in Albu Kamal, which is located in Syria's Dayr al-Zawr Governorate.
Source: PressTV