Looks like Iran had been expecting this attack for months; Resources from the hit facilities were already out of harms way; Deployed a tactic designed to disrupt Isreali's defense system and confirmed they declined Russia + China's offer of help.
**Copypasted tweet from an interview with Senior IRGC General & politician, Mohsen Rezaei:
We have punished the Israelis severely until today, but it is not enough.
Our punishment must be an insurance for the future so that the enemy does not dare to do this a second time.
The enemy intended to create chaos in the country by assassinating senior military commanders, but this attempt was thwarted in the first 48 hours.
In the next stage, it intended to turn Iran into Syria and plunge it into a 10-year period of insecurity, but today the Zionist regime itself has become Syria.
In just the past 48 hours, you saw that we employed a new tactic—a combination of Fattah and Sejjil missiles— and when these are used together, they truly create serious disruption in the enemy’s defense systems.
• Any ceasefire that is implemented now will lead to renewed war. We must not allow the enemy, which is currently in a weak position, to revive itself with a ceasefire.
• We have used less than 30% of our military capabilities. Part of the reason we are gradually escalating the war is to get people out of the area.
• All enriched materials have been transferred and are in safe places.
Netanyahu has told the US to either help me or declare a ceasefire.
The US entry to the war may be able to disable Fordow nuclear facility, but it cannot strengthen Israel in terms of defense any more than they are helping now.
Israel hit Natanz, Isfahan’s nuclear facility, Khandab, and Arak but those sites were already evacuated. All the materials they were looking to destroy have been evacuated to a safe place.
We have our nuclear scientists, our facilities that produce the necessary equipment for those targeted sites are still there, so what do they want to achieve with these hits?
The Iranian nation should not worry about the end of this war. Israel must be punished in such a way that it does not dare to create insecurity in Iran in the future years.
It was in February-March that we reached the conclusion in our analyses that there would certainly be a war.
After reaching this war analysis, we increased our missile and cyber technology by 5x in just a few months.
To date, we have not used our land, sea, oil, and Strait of Hormuz capabilities, or our allies in other countries.
Our allies have sent requests to join the war, but we told them there’s no need yet.
We have repeatedly announced that settlers should evacuate from the vicinity of government, military, and intelligence centers in the occupied territories. Because we do not want to harm normal people.
One of the reasons we gradually increased the intensity of the missile strikes was to get people from occupied territories to evacuate.
They can't build a command center next to the hospital and target us from there and expect from us that we don't respond!
@AryJeay: 🇮🇷| Senior IRGC General & politician, Mohsen Rezaei: We have punished the Israelis severely until today, but it is not enough. Our punishment must be an insurance for the future so that the enemy does not...…
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