A retaliatory missile strike that the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps carried out against a target affiliated with Israel’s Mossad in Erbil on Tuesday razed a concrete fortress whose cellar was filled with spying equipment, the IRGC Aerospace Force commander said.
In remarks on Tuesday, Brigadier General Amir Ali Hajizadeh described the missile attacks against the Daesh (ISIL or ISIS) terrorist group and the Mossad center in Syria and Iraq as Iran’s natural response to a series of recent crimes, including the Israeli assassination of two IRGC forces in Syria and the tragic January 3 terrorist attack in Kerman.
He said the missile attacks on Syria’s Idlib killed a large number of Takfiri terrorists and Daesh elements.
Pointing to the strike on Erbil, the commander said the IRGC had detected a location in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, which was a building with the façade of a villa, but the rubble after the attack reveled that it was a sturdy concrete fortress used for spying activities and commanding the special terrorist operations.
It was only one of the locations employed by the enemy, the general added, noting that the fortress demolished in Erbil was the fourth hostile base that the resistance forces have detonated in the past 100 days.
The missile strike in the wee hours of Tuesday destroyed the concrete fortress in Erbil, ruined advanced equipment laid in its two underground stories, and killed the elements that should have been killed, he stated.