IRGC General: Devastating Response Awaiting Ahvaz Attack Terrorists
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Lieutenant Commander Brigadier General Hossein Salami said Iran’s response to the recent terrorist attack on a military parade in the country’s southwestern city of Ahvaz will be hard and devastating.
Speaking at the funeral of victims of the Saturday terrorist attack in Ahvaz, General Salami promised the Iranian nation that perpetrators and sponsors of the terror attack will receive such a “devastating” response that would make them regret it.
Blaming the triangle of the US, the Zionist regime of Israel and Saudi Arabia for the horrific crime against the Iranian people, the general said the people of Khuzestan who have resisted eight years of war in the 1980s would not be shocked by “four mosquitos” that carried out the Saturday attack.
During the military parade in Ahvaz on Saturday morning, Takfiri militants opened fired on military officials and ordinary people in the event. At least 25 people have died and 60 others injured in the terrorist attack.
A senior spokesman for the Iranian Armed Forces said four terrorists were involved in the attack, noting that they had hidden their rifles in the parade venue beforehand.
According to media reports, the Al-Ahvaziya terrorist group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
