News - Middle East: The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) says Saturday's eighteenth phase of Operation True Promise III was one of the most successful of the past week.

In a statement early on Sunday, just before the nineteenth phase was launched, IRGC spokesperson Brigadier General Ali Mohammed Naeini said the previous phase was among the most successful recent missile and drone operations by the IRGC Aerospace Forces.

It featured new innovations in missile selection, target choice, and guidance paths for both missiles and drones, resulting in the targeting of 14 strategic military sites in Haifa and Tel Aviv, he stated.

The "Sail Tower" in central Haifa, which hosts the office of the artificial intelligence company AI12 Labs and other software firms affiliated with the military industries of the Zionist regime’s ministry of war, was targeted in this operation with a long-range Qadr-F missile.

Among other targets that were hit include the Hadera power plant, Haifa oil refinery, Ovda airbase (cyber command), the semiconductor industrial zone of Kiryat Gat, and the Rafael center in Haifa, Brigadier General Naeini stated.

He went on to warn the Zionist regime that the nineteenth phase of the operation will be “continuous, sustained, disrupting their balance.”

The Iranian armed forces, led by the IRGC Aerospace Division, have carried out 19 phases of Operation True Promise III so far since June 13, when the Israeli regime launched an unprovoked aggression against the Islamic Republic of Iran.

The aggression claimed the lives of many senior military commanders, scientists, university professors, athletes and students, including children.

After the aggression, Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei said the Iranian Armed Forces will act strongly and render the despicable Israeli regime helpless.

Ayatollah Khamenei added that the Israeli regime will not escape unscathed from this crime and assured the Iranian nation that there will be no negligence in this regard.

"The great Iranian people can be assured that the Armed Forces will act powerfully in support of them and will deliver heavy blows to this regime,” he emphasized.

Source: Press TV