Tehran: 4 Iranian Army forces martyred in today’s Zionist aggression

TEHRAN, Oct.26, (ST)-Iran’s Army says four of its forces were martyred during Israeli aggression on the country overnight.

In a statement released on Saturday, the Islamic Republic of Iran Army said the two members of the Iranian army were martyred while defending the country’s security and preventing harm to the Iranian nation and interests. Two others were injured while defending Iran’s airspace and later succumbed to their wounds.

Earlier, Iran’s air defense force announced that the Israeli regime attacked military sites in the three provinces of Tehran, Khuzestan and Ilam, saying the attacks were successfully thwarted, according to IRNA

Moreover, IRNA reported that the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran has issued a statement on Israel’s aggression against the country, saying the regime used airspace controlled by the United States in Iraq to carry out its limited attacks on Iran’s military sites.

The statement, issued late on Saturday, said that Israeli fighter jets stationed within a range of 100 kilometers from the Iranian borders in the Iraqi airspace controlled by the US had fired a number of air-launched missiles at Iranian targets in the early hours of the day.

It said Iranian radar units in the border provinces of Ilam and Khuzestan and near the capital Tehran suffered “minor and ineffective” damage as a result of the Israeli aggression, adding that all radar units have either been repaired or are being re-serviced.

“During this illegal and illegitimate move, a significant number of the missiles were traced and detected and the enemy’s planes were blocked from entering the country’s airspace,” said the statement.

The Iranian General Staff said that Iran reserves its right to respond to the aggression at an appropriate time, adding that the country reiterates the need for reaching a sustainable ceasefire in Gaza and Lebanon to prevent the killing of innocent people in those regions.

It also warned the “criminal and terrorist-breeding government of the US” to contain Israel or face further problems because of the regime’s wars in the region.

B.Q.