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IRGC Aerospace Commander: Wednesday Missile Strikes Mark Start of Major Operations Across Region
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TEHRAN (FNA)- Islamic Revolution Guards Corps Aerospace Force Commander Brigadier General Amir Ali Hajizadeh said Iran's missile strikes on two US bases in Iraq in retaliation for assassination of IRGC Qods Force Commander Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani triggered vast operations to expel American troops from the region.
"The missile strikes on one of the United States' most important bases within the framework of martyr Soleimani operation was the start of big operations which will continue in the entire region," General Hajizadeh told reporters in Tehran on Thursday.

"We were not after killing anyone although tens of US troops have likely been killed and wounded and carried with C-130 planes to Baghdad, Israel and Jordan hospitals," he added, noting that had Iran intended to kill the American forces, it could have planned high casualty operations to kill 500 US military men in the first step and 4,000 to 5,000 others in the second and third phases within 48 hours.

General Hajizadeh said that 13 missiles were fired at the US bases on Tuesday, adding that Iran was ready to fire hundreds of missiles in the first hours and had prepared thousands of missiles for possible 3-day to week-long clashes between the two sides.

He underlined that the blood of Iranian martyrs is of high value and they cannot be compensated by hitting their bases, downing their fighter jets or even killing Trump, "since the main revenge as stated by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei is expelling the US from the region completely".

Lieutenant General Soleimani was martyred in a targeted assassination attack by the US drones at Baghdad International Airport early on Friday morning.

The airstrike also martyred Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, deputy commander of Iraq's Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF), or Hashad al-Shaabi. The two were martyred in an American airstrike that targeted their vehicle on the road to the airport.

Five Iranian and five Iraqi militaries were martyred by missiles fired by the US drone at Baghdad International Airport.

The attack came amid tensions that started by the US attack on PMF units that killed 28 Iraqi popular forces. A day later, Iraqi people attacked the US embassy in Baghdad.

The targeted assassination attack represents a dramatic escalation by the US toward Iran after months of tensions. The tensions take root in Trump’s decision in May 2018 to withdraw the US from Iran’s nuclear deal with world powers, struck under his predecessor.

On Wednesday, the IRGC Aerospace Force launched heavy ballistic missile attacks on US Ein Al-Assad airbase in Southwestern Iraq near the border with Syria and a US operated airbase in Erbil in retaliation for the assassination of General Soleimani.

Ein Al-Assad is an airbase with a 4km runway at 188m altitude from sea levels, which is the main and the largest US airbase in Iraq. Early reports said the radar systems and missile defense shields in Ein Al-Assad had failed to operate and intercept the Iranian missiles. Unofficial reports said the US army's central radar systems at Ein Al-Assad had been jammed by electronic warfare.

Some 80 US army personnel were killed and nearly 200 more wounded in Iran's Wednesday missile attacks, informed sources said.

The second IRGC reprisal attack targeted a US military base near Erbil airport in Iraqi Kurdistan Region in the second leg of "Martyr Soleimani" reprisal operation.

All flights were cancelled at Erbil airport.

Iraq said the attacks had not taken any toll from its army men stationed at these two bases. The US army had blocked entrance into Ein Al-Assad to everyone, including the Iraqi army.

It was the first direct attack on the US army ever since WWII.

IRGC officials said none of the missiles had been intercepted.

Following the attack, the IRGC issued a statement immediately after the attacks, declaring that it had fired tens of ground-to-ground missiles at "the airbase occupied by the terrorist and aggressive army of the United States known as Ein Al-Assad" in reprisal for the martyrdom of IRGC Qods Force Commander Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani.

The IRGC warned the US to avoid retaliating the Wednesday attack or else "it will face a more painful and crushing response".

The IRGC Statement also warned "all the US allied states where the terrorist army has a base, any territory that becomes the origin of any hostile and aggressive action against the Islamic Republic of Iran in any way will be targeted".

"We believe that the Zionist regime by no means stands aside from the criminal US regime in these crimes."

The IRGC also called on the American nation to pressure the White House to pull their troops out of the region to avoid further damage and not allow the US rulers to endager the lives of their military men through increasing hatred.

All Iranian underground missile towns were on alert.

The missile attack came hours before the body of General Soleimani was laid to rest.
 
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on the other hand they were talking about "standing down" if US didn't retaliate..
for fs sake what is truth??
 
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on the other hand they were talking about "standing down" if US didn't retaliate..
for fs sake what is truth??

they cant do much. All hollow statements and useless missile attack that didn't kill anyone.

All they can do is kill innocent sunnis and further their shia agenda in sunni countries.
 
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on the other hand they were talking about "standing down" if US didn't retaliate..
for fs sake what is truth??

Clearly that was referring the attacks occurring on that night itself.

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they cant do much. All hollow statements and useless missile attack that didn't kill anyone.

juvenile logic. everyone can clearly see Iran deliberatly did not kill in order to prevent a major war. If Iran slaughtered 100's of americans, which is something it was easy for Iran, then trump would have had no choice but to declare war! Iran wanted to make trump look weak without starting a war, and it did that nicely.



All they can do is kill innocent sunnis and further their shia agenda in sunni countries.

You sound like some Takfiri.
 
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Clearly that was referring the attacks occurring on that night itself.



juvenile logic. everyone can clearly see Iran deliberatly did not kill in order to prevent a major war. If Iran slaughtered 100's of americans, which is something it was easy for Iran, then trump would have had no choice but to declare war! Iran wanted to make trump look weak without starting a war, and it did that nicely.





You sound like some Takfiri.


Hahaha..

You wouldn't even stand one week against American bombardment. All you can do is flex your muscles against unarmed sunnis. The kind of slaughter your kind has committed in Syria to protect Assad is tantamount to genocide.

I am glad Qasim was taken out and his body shredded into pieces. Hope he rots in hell for all the murders he committed in Syria and Iraq.
 
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You wouldn't even stand one week against American bombardment.

Iran is reposinble for killing many Americans in places like lebanon and Iraq.

All you can do is flex your muscles against unarmed sunnis. The kind of slaughter your kind has committed in Syria to protect Assad is tantamount to genocide.

You sound more like a takfiri by the second.

I am glad Qasim was taken out and his body shredded into pieces. Hope he rots in hell for all the murders he committed in Syria and Iraq.

I am know you're weeping for your ISIS brethren that he slaughtered.

@Irfan Baloch That user is trying create some sectarian debate here with this "sunni" and "shia". Please remove him.
 
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Iran is reposinble for killing many Americans in places like lebanon and Iraq.



You sound more like a takfiri by the second.



I am know you're weeping for your ISIS brethren that he slaughtered.

@Irfan Baloch That user is trying create some sectarian debate here with this "sunni" and "shia". Please remove him.

To you any civilian Syrian would be an ISIS member.
You need to dehumanize them in-order to kill them...
 
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To you any civilian Syrian would be an ISIS member.
You need to dehumanize them in-order to kill them...

No, it's the other way round. You're considering any ISIS he slaughtered to be civilians. You're fooling no one with your desperate takfiri nonesense.
 
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No, it's the other way round. You're considering any ISIS he slaughtered to be civilians. You're fooling no one with your desperate takfiri nonesense.

Takfiri means declaring Shias non-muslim...Did I declare them as such ?

All I said Solemani and IRGC are anti-sunni organizations. Their job is to keep Assad in power by killing Syrians.
 
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Takfiri means declaring Shias non-muslim...Did I declare them as such ?

You certainly seems like the type with your takfiri like propaganda.

All I said Solemani and IRGC are anti-sunni organizations. Their job is to keep Assad in power by killing Syrians.

Yet more reason to suggest you're some closet takfiri.
 
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they cant do much. All hollow statements and useless missile attack that didn't kill anyone.

All they can do is kill innocent sunnis and further their shia agenda in sunni countries.

for local consumption..... keep the people of iran ignorant and keep the religious fervor alive.. what a world we live in.
 
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You certainly seems like the type with your takfiri like propaganda.



Yet more reason to suggest you're some closet takfiri.

You don't even know the meaning of Takfiri but yet you are throwing that word like confetti.

Looks like another Iran troll. Well , what else can you do except trolling . US killed your top general and you had to show nothing. In fact , you killed your own 40 people in stampede and another 170 in airplane crash...
 
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