“We precisely targeted their knowledge-based centers, intelligence centers, and their only active refinery (which supplies 70 percent of their fuel),” General Ali Mohammad Naeini said at a ceremony in north of Iran on Wednesday.
“They (the Israelis) themselves admitted that their scientific achievements of the next 20 years were wasted.”
Iranian missiles crossed the skies of Iraq, Syria, and Jordan to reach their targets; where about 200 modern fighters and all defenses in the region were deployed to intercept them, he noted. “The enemy had said that its systems would not be saturated, but we destroyed their vital targets with (massive attacks) and combined tactics.”
He said the enemy thought that by hitting the radars and targeting the commanders, it would take away Iran’s ability to respond.
“However, the structure of the Islamic Republic’s armed forces is not based on individuals. Commanders such as Martyr (Mohammad Hossein) Baqeri, Martyr (Amir Ali) Hajizadeh and others had ordered their forces before the (war) to continue the work without interruption in case of their martyrdom. Therefore, even when the main commanders were targeted, with only a 12-hour break for replacement and coordination, Operation True Promise III was carried out with greater power and creativity (than previous operations). The missile and drone sites carried out their mission under the heaviest attacks.”
The spokesman added, “This was a full-scale war; a combination of airstrikes, new technologies, electronic warfare, cyber warfare, and heavy media operations designed to create ‘shock and awe’. In this battle, the enemy brought all of its forty years of experience (of plotting against the Islamic Republic)—from coups and infiltration to military war, economic sanctions, and color revolutions—to the fore. But as the Leader of the Islamic Revolution said, their calculations, despite the completeness of the plan, turned out to be wrong.”
Noting that military analysts around the world divide the history of modern wars into “before and after the 12-Day War,” he said, “The reality is that this battle was the war of an independent Iran against all the capabilities of NATO.”
He pointed out that this war was a turning point in the security developments of the 21st century and said, “If you search, you will see that all the American and NATO bases in the region (which are estimated to be around 4,700 bases), along with the most advanced fighter jets, nuclear warheads, artificial intelligence and cyber power, came to support the Zionist regime. It is now being taught as a model in war universities around the world.”
On June 13, Israel launched a blatant and unprovoked aggression against Iran, triggering a 12-day war that killed at least 1,064 people in the country, including military commanders, nuclear scientists, and civilians.
The United States also entered the war by bombing three Iranian nuclear sites in a grave violation of international law.
In response, the Iranian Armed Forces targeted strategic sites across the occupied territories as well as the al-Udeid air base in Qatar, the largest American military base in West Asia.
On June 24, Iran, through its successful retaliatory operations against both the Israeli regime and the US, managed to impose a halt to the terrorist assault.