ERBIL, Kurdistan Region of Iraq - Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) warned the United States on Sunday that it “must expect regrettable responses" to its “unprecedented” attacks on the country’s “peaceful” nuclear facilities.
“Today’s aggression by the terrorist regime of the United States has led the Islamic Republic of Iran, within the framework of its legitimate right to self-defense, to use options beyond the understanding and illusory calculations of the aggressor front, and the aggressors of this land must expect regrettable responses,” the IRGC said in an inflamatory statement carried by the state TV.
US President Donald Trump on Saturday announced that they had joined Israel in striking Iran, targeting the country's main uranium enrichment facilities in Natanz, Isfahan, and Fordow.
In an Address to the Nation following the strikes, the American president said they had carried out “massive precision strikes” on the three key nuclear facilities. “Our objective was the destruction of Iran's nuclear enrichment capacity and a stop to the nuclear threat posed by the world’s number one state sponsor of terror.”
“Iran's key nuclear enrichment facilities have been completely and totally obliterated,” Trump claimed.
The IRGC said that the US “has placed itself at the forefront of aggression by directly attacking peaceful facilities” of Tehran.
The Iranian force detailed they had already identified “the flight location of the planes” that participated in the coordinated US-Israel attack on Iran’s nuclear sites.
Iran and Israel have traded fire over the past week, sparked by an extensive Israeli bombardment targeting Iranian nuclear and military facilities across the country. The US initially denied involvement in Israel’s attacks on Iran.
In a separate message, IRGC chief Mohammed Pakpour said that their aerial attacks on Israel “will not be interrupted.”
Iranian foreign ministry said Sunday that US attacks showed that Washington "will stop at no illegality or crime" to support Israel.
Following the US strikes, Iran's Atomic Energy Organization called the attacks “a brutal act that contradicts international laws, especially the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT)."
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