Iraq attack was beginning of ‘major, wide scale operation’: IRGC commander
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As US President Donald Trump announced that Iran appeared to be “standing down,” Iranian officials and Iran-backed Iraqi militias warned that further “revenge” attacks would be carried out in the near future in response to the US assassination of former Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps Quds Force commander Qasem Soleimani.
Amir Ali Hajizadeh, the commander of the IRGC’s Aerospace Force, warned that the Iranian missile attack on US forces in Iraq on Tuesday night was just the beginning of a major operation named “Operation Martyr Soleimani” that would “continue throughout the region,” according to the Iranian Fars news.
“We did not seek to kill. We sought to hit the enemy military machine,” said Hajizadeh, adding that the IRGC was prepared to fire hundreds of missiles. The “cost of the blood” of Soleimani and the others killed in the US drone strike is the complete deportation of US forces, according to the commander.
An official of the Iran-backed Asa’ib Ahl al-Haq militia stressed that the Iraqi militias still haven’t carried out their response to the assassination and that the coming response will be “very harsh,” according to KAN News.
The official, Jawad al-Tulaibawi, added that the militias had not carried out the rocket attacks on Wednesday night that struck Baghdad’s Green Zone near where the US embassy is located. He called the claims “shameful.”
