TABNAK, Oct, 27: “First, Zionist regime’s fighters attacked a number of military sites and radar systems inside Iran from Iraqi airspace bordering 70 miles with Iran. Iraqi sky is occupied and controlled by US Army. Consequently, US involvement in the crime is definite.” The mission wrote on X.

Israel’s early Saturday airstrikes on Iran have sparked an immediate backlash from numerous countries worldwide, though Western nations have yet to issue any direct criticism.

The strikes, which Iran reports were mostly intercepted by its air defenses, targeted military sites in Tehran, Ilam and Khuzestan provinces. 

In a statement, Iran’s Army confirmed that four of its soldiers lost their lives in the pre-dawn attacks.

On October 1, Iran responded to the Israeli assassination of Hamas political bureau chief Ismail Haniyeh, Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, and senior IRGC commander Abbas Nilforooshan by launching as many as 200 ballistic missiles toward the occupying regime’s military and intelligence bases all over the occupied Palestinian territories.

Dubbed Operation True Promise II, the retaliatory strike dealt a severe blow to the illegal regime all the more ruinous than its prequel in April, with Tel Aviv having so far declined to reveal the extent of loss it suffered despite vowing to respond on several occasions.