On Tuesday, IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi issued a warning to Iran against any further aggression towards Israel. This statement followed targeted Israeli airstrikes on Iranian military installations over the weekend, which were executed in response to a significant ballistic missile assault initiated by Tehran on October 1.

Addressing aircrews at the Ramon Air Base located in southern Israel, Halevi emphasized that if Iran “makes the mistake and launches another barrage of missiles at Israel, we will once again know how to reach Iran.”

He further cautioned that should Iran choose to attack again, Israel would “reach Iran, with capabilities that we did not even use this time, and hit extremely hard both the capabilities and the places that we spared this time.”

Halevi explained that Israel had refrained from taking full action against Iranian missile production facilities and other targets during the recent strikes because “we may be required to do it again.”

He added, “We didn’t finish this event, we are right in the middle of it.”

In response to the attacks, Iran has attempted to minimize the impact, with Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei stating on Sunday that the situation “should neither be exaggerated nor minimized.”

Similarly, Hossein Salami, the chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, asserted that Israel had “failed to achieve its ominous goals” but warned that the “bitter consequences will be unimaginable” for Israel.

Iran’s foreign ministry spokesperson, Esmail Baghei, cautioned that Tehran would utilize “all available tools” for retaliation.

Israel’s military responses to Iranian installations occurred weeks after the October 1 incident, during which Iran fired 200 ballistic missiles at Israel, prompting a large portion of the population to seek shelter and resulting in relatively minor damage to military installations and some residential areas, as well as the death of a Palestinian man in the West Bank.

This Iranian assault followed an Israeli airstrike in Beirut that resulted in the death of Hassan Nasrallah, the longstanding leader of Hezbollah. Iran stated that the missile attack was also a reaction to the assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in a widely attributed explosion in Tehran in July.

In a prolonged operation that began early Saturday, numerous Israeli aircraft targeted crucial military facilities throughout Iran, focusing on sites related to drone and ballistic missile production, launch installations, and air defense systems. Explosions were reported in the regions of Tehran, Karaj, Isfahan, and Shiraz.

Additionally, a set of satellite images analyzed by the Associated Press on Tuesday suggested that Israel likely struck a facility associated with the Revolutionary Guards for ballistic missile production in Shahroud, though the Israel Defense Forces did not confirm it as a designated target.

{Matzav.com}