Rouhani hails revenge attack on terrorists in Syria, warns of more action
Tehran (KNA) - Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has praised the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) for taking befitting revenge for a terrorist attack in the southwestern city of Ahvaz, saying the Islamic Republic will give a crushing and firm response to any act of aggression or terror.
"The world should know that we regard masterminds and instigators of terrorist [attacks] as terror perpetrators and as terrorist agents are condemned and we deal with them, the planners are condemned too, and we will confront them and they are doomed to failure," Rouhani said during a cabinet meeting on Wednesday.
The IRGC said on Monday that it had hit the gatherings of the ringleaders of the recent terror attack in Ahvaz with several surface-to-surface ballistic missiles in an area to the east of the river Euphrates, near Albu Kamal town on Syria's eastern border with Iraq.
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.
The IRGC said the attack was a response to the "cowardly" act of terror during a military parade in Ahvaz on September 22, which killed 25 people and injured 69 others.
Rouhani said in the cabinet meeting that the fact that the Islamic Republic of Iran "firmly, accurately and in a short time targets the [commanding] center of terrorists indicates that if the low-ranking agents of a terrorist group in Iran do something, then we will be targeting the architects, the main group and their commanding center."
On the sidelines of the cabinet meeting, Iran's Defense Minister Brigadier General Amir Hatami also hailed the IRGC's missile attack on positions of terrorists in eastern Syria and warned those who might think about targeting Iran.
Source: PressTV