News - Middle East: A former chief commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps says Iran demonstrated during last month’s retaliation against Israeli and US aggression that it is capable of effectively challenging both Washington and Tel Aviv at the same time.

Major General Mohsen Rezaei, who took on the IRGC’s commandership following the victory of the country’s Islamic Revolution in 1979, made the remarks during a televised interview on Tuesday.

The successful reprisal, he said, harked back to the famous words, “I am the one who can challenge you” that was once uttered by Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani, the former commander of the Corps’ Quds Force.

“This was truly proven” throughout the Iranian counterstrikes, said Rezaei, who is also on the Expediency Discernment Council that advises Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei.

On June 13, the Israeli regime launched a series of airstrikes against the Islamic Republic, backed by unprecedented American military and intelligence support.

Iran’s Armed Forces responded swiftly, first with comprehensive defensive maneuvers, and then by unleashing a rapid and relentless counteroffensive.

Codenamed Operation True Promise III, the reprisal struck with devastating precision deep inside the occupied Palestinian territories, targeting vital nuclear, military, and industrial sites.

Hundreds of ballistic missiles, many supersonic and equipped with multiple warheads, rained down alongside swarms of armed drones, pounding key centers, including the city of Tel Aviv, the regime’s economic core, occupied Haifa, its most critical deep-water port, and Be’er Sheva, the nerve center of the Zionist entity’s technological advancement.

Under intense pressure from the unyielding retaliation, the regime scrambled to seek a ceasefire just 12 days later, despite having had deployed the entire array of its own missile systems and also enlisted some of America’s most advanced missile platforms.

Source: Press TV