avatary attack, the missile attack of irgc on targets and facilities, military facilities and security areas of the israeli regime that was carried out uh uh actually violated the sovereignty and authority of the uh lebanese government and as you know uh during the uh past weeks and past months they assassinated mr. ismile hanyer inside iran what was mentioned in the irgc statement uh was that this decision to

launch this missile attack was passed by the national security council of iran uh under platform of the right to defend the sovereignty of the country, they stated that if designist regime tried to retaliate to this attack... i want to say that this attack will have serious aspects. multiple aspects: the first

aspect is the is is is that this missile operation actually describes and shows the the strength of the islamic republic of iran, and it fulfilled the expectations of the people, and it was answer to the demands of the people for attack on. and also it sent a message to the supporters of the israel regime, especially united states, that the islamic republic of iran is able that to to stand against the aggressors with the strength, and i am pretty sure that this operation will definitely have.

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and the security forces and missile forces of this country had no capability to stand against such operations and it shows that this army and the armed forces of israel after the nearly one year of aggression against the defenceless people of gaza and the people of lebanon and hezballah today they are suffering huge loss and huge failure and from tactical perspective i must say that the operation showed. that the air defense

systems and radar systems of the regime were not able to stand against this very first step of the missile operation by irgc, and as the regime itself announced, 90% of the ballistic missiles of iran were able to hit the military bases and security facilities of the regime. this means that from tactical perspective, this operation was a complete.

really aggressions against the people of lebanon and gaza was total satisfactory among people of the region and the world and this shows that the iranian regime actually carried this the iranian government actually

carried this strike on behalf of the people and it seems that the israeli regime and its allies show any kind of retaliation against this

strike, it will face serious consequences and this will not be to the benefit of the regime and north the americans. the regime has been unable to fulfill any of its objectives in the region and they they have been unable to break the resistance in

gaza and lebanon, they have other way and other choice, but to follow the path.

finally, i want to mention that this operation, this missile operation by the islamic republic is the first step, of an operation that is looking for.

and this operation shows that this region will be engineered politically engineered by the resistance. joining us from uh tehran, you're just uh joining us, we are those are those are images from earlier on uh iranian missiles raining down on tel aviv there in the uh afternoon to evening hours in the region of west asia in response to israel's ongoing aggression. it's a campaign of death, destruction and genocide against regional uh people. we have also in our studio a madian

ozar chair, our press tv colleague to join us for this uh rolling uh coverage uh miriam, you know some western leaders will call this, we oh oh it seems like we don't have uh miriam uh right now part night that we had her on but apparently uh uh she's uh no longer uh with us on this. rolling coverage, but for our viewers uh tuning in, we're showing you uh images, these are not live any longer, they were just couple hours ago, these are now uh repeated images of these air strikes by um iranian uh missiles for the most part uh many of them hypersonic missils by iran's irgc which the irgc said only less than 10% were intercepted by uh israeli air defenses, so-called iron dome uh missile system which apparently was over. tonight by iran's retaliatory operation and did not succeed in uh intercepting more than 10% of

the barrage sent from the islamic republic iran's un mission set iran's legal, rational and legitimate response to the terrorist acts the zionist regime which involved targeting irani nationals and interests and infringing upon national sovereignty of the islamic republic has been duly carried out and it's a to this designist regime dare to respond or commit further acts of violence, a subsequent and crushing response will in ensue, and in a statement shortly after that the irgc said is missile attack is aimed at three military bases in the area of uh tel aviv using ballistic missiles uh the barrage is said accompanied by large scale cyber attack also utilized iran's new fatah hypersonic ballistic. missiles for a first time, according to iranian officials, the israeli

military has reported uh, it said 180 missiles were fired into uh occupied territories saying a large number were intercepted, but you could see images that we shared earlier with you, completely refuting that claim as we saw very very small number in the uh the tel avive night sky, they're getting intercepted, most were reaching their targets, now you can see these celebrations on the upper right hand part of your screen there, inside iran, we've showed you multiple cities in including uh from from the north to the south, east west, at least couple dozen cities in the country right now at this late time 1:15 a.m. people are still in the streets celebrating these retaliatory attacks by the islamic republic against the zinus entity for its regional aggression and violence and you see uh gazans there in the lower left hand part of your screen there in the jabalya refugee camp standing next to

ruins as israel has turned gaza in the last year to a pile of rubble wiping out 42,000 gazons, over 70% of them women and children, you can see the jubilee in the kids there as the regime has uh done nothing but bring them a year long campaign of genocide, death, destruction and terror, and you can also see images - from nablis and the occupied west bank, and suhed khatib, political uh analyst is uh is uh on sambye uh to join us from the occupied uh west bank hello sohad uh pleasure to uh have you join our conversation our rolling coverage here on press tv your initial thoughts on iran's retaliatory attack.

we had uh sohad khati political analyst with us, i try to put a question to sohad, but it seems like we lost sohad online, we had it uh with us, but apparently we lost that connection med uh question, so for viewers that are waiting for a response to my question, we'll have to wait a little longer until it seems like we can get khatib back online, but these are images from the jabalya refugee camp in gaza which has itself been a target time and again of... israel's onslot during its one year long campaign of genocide against gazans, you could see uh people celebrating in jabalya, we can also see on the upper right hand part of your screen there, celebrations inside of uh iran, we've taken you across multiple cities throughout the country, including the capital, tehran,

the southern city of shiraz, the northern city of sari. the uh western cities of keraman shah, the northwestern city of tabris, the city of isbahan, dozens upon dozens of cities at this late time of the hour, morning hour at 1:18 a.m. here, um, tehran time, the country is having huge outporing of people in a celebratory move as this much anticipated air strike against the zianist entity uh is... finally came to fruition, there are many people in the region waiting quite some time, but iran has time and again said that it is exercising restraint and uh strategic patience before it decides to act, it has said time and again, it will act against the regime for all of its adventurism and violence, not just against iranian nationals, but also iran's a allies,

the women and children, innocent civilians of the region, including palestinians, in both in gaza and occupied west bank, the lebanese, syrians, the irakis, yemenis, many people that have been targeted by the israeli regime in the past few months, resulting in deaths all across the region of west asia, you can see that iran's a un envoy say tehran will not hesitate to give much severe and decisive response if israel chooses to retaliate now to iran's retaliatory. operations this evening, joining us now from our tehran studios isa hashimi um for more on the story and joining us in this rolling coverage hello adidas pleasure to have you join us if you can uh iranians reactions to this retaliatory attack both uh from the civilian side of things and also when it comes to iranian

officials uh well uh in the last few minutes we had decisive reaction and a statement by the general staff of the iranian arm forces which warn israel against uh making any act of foolishness. against iran and to you know launch attack on iran, the general staff of armed forces out that uh such attack by israel will be met by devastating response by iran that will you know cause wider sp wider spread destruction in israel's infrastructure and the the statement also vowed that if a country supporting israel try to intervene and attack directly, iran will hit their interests uh in the region and beyond. also, earlier before that, we had a reaction from iran's foreign ministry, which called on, you

know, the un security council and the global community to reign in israel before it's too late, and to stop the regime from, you know, you taking acts of escalations, and also we had an statement by... "the iranian general uh brigadier general aziz nasirzade who is serving as iran's defense minister uh he said the country has not used its most advanced missiles in the attack on israel and that if israel tries to you know uh respond to the iranian attack iran will be forced to use those advanced missiles against israel and the regime will be met by severe response. from iran and uh what do you think how what are you foreseing things happening next we know that it's a very tumultuous time right

now of iran's uh foreign minister you mentioned and many other uh uh the top iranian uh brass um as well as uh political figures are saying should the regime respond things could uh really spiral out of control what is a region to expect next also iran's foreign minister abbus. arachi has said israel's western backers it is high time for them to reign in the zianist entities war mungering do you see uh finally uh basically cooler heads prevailing and of western leaders especially in washington getting the uh the the uh far right so called far right zinist entity cabinet to cool it with this regional aggression and and violence and hopefully see a restoration of calm to the region that we haven't seen in well over year now, well uh, unfortunately the the us and other backers of the israeli regime have just

you know fully supported the regime's acts of escalation over the past year and we we have seen many contradictions in the statements by the us officials, western officials uh for example israel has the us has called on israel to uh not to take uh to descal descal tensions in the region, the us has called on israel to do that, but whenever israel uh takes an act act of the escalation in the region like by attacking assassinating ismail hani or by you know assassinating hisballah chief sayid nasrullah, the us just fully supports those acts of escalation, the us has been calling for a cease fire over the past year many times since the beginning of the... on gaza, but whenever israel rejects those fire calls, the us just move on, they don't react to this, and they just keep pumping weapons into the israeli occupied

territories, and they continue to enable further atrocities and massacers by the regime, and this attitude is evident in the the us reaction to iranian retaliation, we had us president joe biden few hours ago, he said that uh he described the iranian attack as ineffective and defeated and uh we had the us secretary of state anthony blincan uh calling on the war to condemn iranian attack and those are just uh unbelievable because the us has been you know providing israel with diplomatic cover over the past year they have shielded israel against all the criticism they have enabled israel to massacre so many civilians in gaza and lebanon and elsewhere, but now when iran tries to you retaliate in a legitimate

manner, in a lawful. against israeli atrocities, they call on the war to condemn iran, and this is just unbelievable, and uh, you know, israeli officials have also reacted to the iranian attack, they have both tried to play down the iranian attack, we had some israeli military officials claiming that they intercepted most of the iranian missiles and that's very hard to believe because iran said 90% of the... says hit their targets and also we had the footage of numerous impacts inside the israeli occupied territories and also we have a long record of israeli officials underestimating and under reporting their casualties everywhere in gaza in lebanon so it's very hard to believe this claim that israel has intercepted most of the missiles and uh and it's hard to believe the us claims

that the irin attack was just ineffective and defeated uh, but uh at the same time israely officials have vowed to uh respond to the iranian attack uh in a matter and time of their own choosing uh but it's not they have not detailed that but we have to wait and see if they're going to make any mistakes or not. thank you alizo, it seems like we have a suhar khatib uh finally on the line for from jordan, political analys, hello uh, sohad, pleasure to have you join us here a rolling coverage with respect to iran's retaliatory missile strikes against uh tel aviv, the zinist entity for over year of regional violence and aggression against the people of the region, so how'd your initial thoughts on iran's latest move? hello for all as the

beginning. so had, can you hear us? yes, yes, i hear you, so okay, are we having a different time, i mean, can you hear us, if you could hear us, your initial thoughts to iran's retaliatory strikes that we witnessed tonight against tel aviv, yeah, yeah, she call ibrahim, and she do and she call her husband, she don't want to stop the world, she want to the war to, she she do this terrible thing, yeah, many terrible thing, and no one tell her like america, washington, tell us about the w, the in gaza, and gaza,

and lebanon. so this is a a reply from iran to what do israel? yes, and uh, so had you know some western leaders, they're going to call this retaliatory attack by iran a provocation, an aggression and escalation, saying this move can lead the region to war, now do you see iran's uh operation offensive or defensive and why? you want differences because at beginning is beginning and still leaders in iran, so we have to protect ourselves, because of that we this night. to

do this night? yes okay, so thank you for joining us, stay safe, we we kind of have a bad connection so we're going to cut it short and uh, i want to appreciate you for joining us swad khati political analyst there uh if if you don't mind i want to put that same question a to you if we could the western leaders are going to come out right now and you kind of alluded to this in your - first set of comments there, they're going to make certain assertions about iran saying this is escalatory attack, this is going to lead to war. and they're going to basically try to help the regime play the victim card once again as it has since october the 7th to try to justify genocide and slew of other uh uh destabilizing activities that's carried out in the region your thoughts on it this operation by iran was uh basically jumping the gun uh did iran basically uh act in haste or did it wait strategic