Images appearing on social media showed the new missiles leaving an unfamiliar trail in the sky.
Shortly later, the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (I.R.G.C.) said in a press release that the new missiles were of the Sejjil type, potent weapons that are two-stage, long-haul, and super-heavy.
“To the residents of the occupied Quds territories,” the I.R.G.C. statement read, “the skies of the occupied territories have opened up to the Iranian missiles and drones.”
The statement added that strikes will be constant and impact-oriented.
Major General Abdolrahim Mousavi, chairman of the Chiefs of Staff of Iran’s Armed Forces, announced on Tuesday that the Armed Forces would shortly switch from deterrent strikes to punitive ones. He said the strikes carried out so far against Israel had been merely deterrent warnings.
In a previous wave of strikes, late on Tuesday, the Armed Forces fired first-generation Fattah missiles, which are maneuverable and evade enemy air defenses. Footage from inside the Israeli-occupied territories showed the missiles making impact on their ground targets. And the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (I.R.G.C.) said Iran had sent a message the United States with Fattah.
The Israeli regime attacked Iran, including residential buildings in Tehran, in an unprovoked act of aggression overnight on June 13. Top Iranian military officials were assassinated in targeted strikes. Civilians died when houses were directly struck. Entire population centers were affected.
Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei appointed new military commanders later that same day and said life would turn bleak for Israel. Shortly afterwards, the Iranian Armed Forces promised to “open the gates of hell” to Israel and began punitive strikes inside the Israeli-occupied territories, hitting Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, and Haifa, among other targets, with salvos of missiles and drones.
Life has come to a halt in the occupied territories as Israelis spend day and night in underground bomb shelters. Many Israelis are paying large sums of money to smugglers to take them to Greece and Cyprus by boat.
Iranian officials have said the mission will continue as long as necessary.
Bending under the Iranian strikes, the Israeli regime has been attempting to coax the United States into joining the war of aggression on Iran. U.S. President Donald Trump, temperamentally susceptible to inveigling, has signaled that he may. Ayatollah Khamenei on Wednesday warned the United States that its potential intervention would bring America “irreparable harm.”
IRNA