A missile takes off as Iran carries out 11th phase of True Promise III against the Israeli regime.
In the most intense phase of Operation True Promise III so far, Iranian long-range missiles tore through multiple layers of Israeli air defenses in the early hours of Wednesday, striking and destroying targets across the occupied territories.
The latest wave of the retaliatory operation, which began late on Friday in response to the Israeli regime’s brutal aggression against the Islamic Republic, commenced at approximately 1:30 a.m. Iran time.
Despite heavy media censorship imposed by the Zionist regime, numerous videos surfaced on social media showing the skies over Tel Aviv and Haifa lit up by a barrage of long-range, advanced Iranian missiles breaching Israel’s three-tiered missile interceptors.
Several of the missiles, some of them being used for the first time, hit their intended targets with precision, including military and intelligence sites belonging to the regime.
Images circulating on social media platforms showed plumes of smoke and fire billowing up in the air at various sensitive and strategic Israeli military intelligence centers.
Israeli settlers, according to some Israeli media reports, were angry at the so-called 'Home Command' about sirens not blaring on time to allow them to hide in underground bunkers.
An Israeli Telegram channel, while sharing a video of Iranian missiles hitting their targets, wrote: "Watch and count the number of interceptor missiles fired by the air defense system, and at the end of the video, you’ll see the Iranian missile bypass them and hit its targets.”
Pertinently, Iranian armed forces have been employing various innovative tactics to outsmart the much-hyped American-assisted Israeli missile interceptors, which have failed to intercept the missiles being fired from Iran since June 13.
The missiles on Wednesday morning flew over the sky of the occupied West Bank as well, where Palestinians were captured celebrating and rejoicing at the sight of Iranian missiles heading toward Tel Aviv and Haifa.
A report in the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth said the latest wave of the Iranian retaliatory operation is "unusual" amid loud explosions in the occupied territories.
The eleventh phase of the operation came only hours after the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) announced that it targeted a number of Israeli military airbases in the occupied territories in retaliatory strikes in the tenth phase of True Promise III.
In a televised statement, an IRGC officer said the airbases that were used to carry out aggression on the Islamic Republic of Iran in recent days were attacked on Tuesday.
Before the latest wave of missile launches, in a stern warning to the Israeli regime and its Western backers on Tuesday, Iran’s top military commander said the “punitive operations” against the regime will be carried out soon.
Major General Sayyid Abdolrahim Mousavi, the newly-elected Chief of Staff of Iran’s Armed Forces, in a televised message, said the operations carried out so far since Friday have served as a deterrent warning, and the actual punitive operations will be executed soon.
“The great nation of Iran, as history shows, has never bowed to any aggression, and, while standing firm against this savage act, will make the Zionist regime pay for its crimes, God willing,” he announced.
These retaliatory attacks were part of the tenth phase of Operation True Promise III, which was launched late on Friday in response to the unprovoked Israeli aggression against Iran, which claimed the lives of many senior military commanders, nuclear scientists, and civilians.
