Missile Strike Is Part of Just Punishment for Aggressors: Iran

January 16, 2024 Hour: 10:55 am

On Tuesday, Iran’s Foreign Affairs Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani said the country’s missile strikes on the bases of “terrorists” in Syria and Israel’s intelligence service Mossad in Iraq’s Kurdistan Region were part of the “just punishment for aggressors.”

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“The move was in line with defending decisively Iran’s sovereignty and security and fighting terrorism and part of the Islamic Republic’s just punishment for aggressors against the country’s security,” Kanaani said while elaborating on the reasons for launching ballistic missiles at Iraq’s Kurdistan Region and Syria.

Iran would not hesitate to use its “legitimate and lawful right” to take deterrent action against the sources of threat against its national security, protect its citizens’ security, and punish criminals, he stressed.

On early Tuesday, Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) announced the attacks in three statements, describing the operations as responses to recent “terrorist attacks” in the southeastern Iranian provinces of Kerman and Sistan and Baluchestan as well as Israel’s recent assassinations of Iranian and resistance forces’ commanders.

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Tonight’s ballistic missile attacks on terrorist cells inside Syria marks Iran’s longest range missile operation.

The targeted terrorist centers were hit from a distance of more than 1,230 km. pic.twitter.com/n0owMVOkTV

— Gazi Tahir (@GaziTahir72)
January 16, 2024

The IRGC also mentioned it had fired 24 ballistic missiles in its strikes on the terrorist bases in Syria and Israel’s intelligence service Mossad in Iraq’s Kurdistan Region.

Four missiles were fired from the southwestern province of Khuzestan against the IS “Takfiri terrorists’ base” in Syria’s Idlib, 11 from western and northwestern Iran against the Mossad base in Iraq’s Kurdistan region and nine against other “terrorist groups’ bases” in the occupied Syrian territories.

Authorities in Iraq’s Kurdistan region said that four people were killed and six others injured as a result of the missile strikes conducted by the IRGC on Kurdistan’s capital city of Erbil.

Iran’s Fars news agency said that four senior Mossad officials and several senior IS commanders were killed in the IRGC’s attacks against the Kurdistan region and Idlib.

#FromTheSouth News Bits | Iran: Security forces will soon identify and apprehend those responsible for the terrorist attack. pic.twitter.com/nK8ouRc1hV

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January 4, 2024