IRGC commander says any attack on Iran will be met with powerful retaliation
A senior Iranian military official warned Friday that any hostile action against Iran would be met with a powerful response, referencing recent regional operations and past military victories.
Speaking at a ceremony marking the anniversary of the Iran-Iraq War’s Operation Bazideraz, Brigadier General Majid Khademi, head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ (IRGC) Intelligence Protection Organization, said, “If today the enemy makes a wrong move, our forces will act in a way that makes Storm of Al-Aqsa feel like a dawn breeze, and Operation True Promise just a warm-up.”
Tehran refers to its direct strikes on Israel as Operation True Promise, with the first launched in April and the second in October of last year. It has also referred to Hamas’s assault on Israel as the Al-Aqsa Storm.
Khademi’s comments come amid indirect diplomatic engagement between Iran and the United States over Tehran’s nuclear program. While officials on both sides have signaled cautious interest in de-escalation, Iranian military leaders continue to stress deterrence and readiness.
“The enemy knows that military confrontation will be damaging,” Khademi said, without naming a specific country. He also warned of non-military threats, accusing foreign powers of conducting a “soft war” through disinformation and psychological operations aimed at weakening public trust and national unity.
“The battlefield has shifted from territory to minds,” he said, adding that Iran’s adversaries are targeting the “faith, hope, and will” of the younger generation through social media and information warfare.
