IRGC Warns to Give Crushing Missile Response to Enemy Attack

A senior commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps underlined the Iranian nation’s full preparedness to repel enemy pressures and threats, and reiterated that the IRGC will give a swift and crushing missile response to any possible enemy attack.

“Our response to every threat will be decisive and crushing and will make (the enemies) repent, and on the day of the incident the IRGC’s missiles will strike them like a thunderbolt,” Commander of the IRGC Aerospace Force Brigadier General Amir Ali Hajizadeh stated on Wednesday at the end of three days of massive missile drills, codenamed Payambar-e Azam 7 (The Great Prophet 7).

As regards the missile wargames, Hajizadeh said that the demonstration of different types of advanced and modern home-made missiles signified the inefficiency of the 33 years of anti-Iran sanctions.

He stated that the IRGC has tested-fired different types of short, mid and long-range missiles from different parts of the country.

Although Iran frequently holds wargames, these exercises appeared to underline Tehran’s threat to strike US military bases in the neighboring countries – in Afghanistan, Bahrain, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia – if it comes under attack by Israel or the United States.

Earlier today, Hajizadeh had said that the IRGC has detailed contingency plans to hit 35 US bases in the region in the early minutes of a possible conflict.

“We have thought of measures to set up bases and deploy missiles to destroy all these bases in the early minutes after an attack,” Hajizadeh said on Wednesday, referring to Iran’s contingency plans for any potential confrontation with the US.

He said that the US has 35 bases around Iran, and stated, “All these bases are within the reach of our missiles. Meantime, the occupied (Palestinian) lands (Israel) are good targets for us as well.”

The Islamic Republic’s top military officials have repeatedly warned that in case of an attack by either the US or Israel, the country would target all American bases in the Middle East and close the strategic Strait of Hormuz.

An estimated 40 percent of the world’s oil supply passes through the waterway.