The new commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has vowed that the Islamic Republic would exact painful revenge on the Israeli regime over the latter’s deadly attacks against the country on Friday.
“Soon, the gates of hell will be opened upon this child-killing regime,” Major General Mohammad Pakpour wrote in a letter addressed to Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei following the attacks.
“The crime that the terrorist Zionist regime committed today in its aggression against the national security and territorial integrity of the Islamic Republic will certainly not go unanswered,” he added.
Such revenge, the commander added, would serve to realize the Leader’s earlier promise of the country’s exercising “harsh punishment” on the regime.
‘Massive, destructive consequences await Israel’
In line with Ayatollah Khameni’s pledge and under the Leader’s “wise and powerful” direction, the Corps would, therefore, “bring the criminal and illegitimate Zionist regime to a bitter and painful fate with massive and destructive consequences,” Pakpour added.
The reprisal, he added, would serve “to take retribution for the blood of commanders, scientists, and the people, who were soaked in their own blood” during the strikes.
The letter came after the string of assaults that featured targeted killing strikes led to the martyrdom of Major General Hossein Salami, the IRGC’s former chief commander.
Brigadier General Amir Ali Hajizadeh, commander of the Corps’ Aerospace Division, Major General Mohammad Bagheri, chief of staff of Iran’s Armed Forces, and Major General Gholam-Ali Rashid, commander of the Islamic Republic’s Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters, were among other victims.
The aggression also claimed veteran nuclear scientists Mohammad-Mehdi Tehranchi, Fereydoun Abbasi, and Dr. Abdol-Hamid Minoucher.
The Corps’ new commander, meanwhile, condoled with Ayatollah Khamenei over the senior officials’ martyrdom and expressed gratitude towards the Leader over his appointment as Major General Salami’s successor.
Pakpour finally vowed that, during his commandership, he would commit to elevating the IRGC’s military prowess, and defending the country and the Iranian nation.
