Iran Ready to ‘Rain down’ Missiles in Response to Enemy Attack

Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Aerospace Force Commander Brig. Gen. Amir Ali Hajizadeh said that the Iranian Armed Forces could defend the country from foreign threats and would respond to an enemy attack with “roaring missiles.”

MOSCOW –The Iranian Armed Forces are capable to defend the country from foreign threats and would respond to an enemy attack with “roaring missiles,” the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Aerospace Force Commander Brig. Gen. Amir Ali Hajizadeh said on Saturday.

 “With the knowledge I have about the capabilities of the (Iranian) Armed Forces and about us, I’d say with confidence that foreign threats against the Islamic Establishment (of Iran) are futile… Should the enemy make a mistake, our roaring missiles will rain down on them,” Hajizadeh said as quoted by the Tasnim news agency.

Earlier in the day, the IRGC started military exercises with the use of missile systems in the northeast province of Semnan, aimed at demonstrating Iran’s readiness to counter enemy threats.

On Friday, Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said in a Tweet that Tehran would “never initiate war,” following this statement by a warning that, if needed, the country would not shy away from using weapons in self-defense.

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