NATO and the United States sent at least 240 fighter jets to shield Israel from Iran’s retaliatory strikes against Israeli-occupied territories last month.
This was the revelation made by Major General Gholam-Ali Rashid, commander of the Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters, during a recent interview with a local newspaper.
Iran’s revenge mission against Israel known as Operation True Promise was launched on April 13 in which the Iranian armed forces launched dozens of explosive drones and fired missiles at the occupied territories.
The attack was in response to an airstrike that destroyed Iran’s embassy complex in the Syrian capital of Damascus on April 1st. The airstrike blamed on Israel killed 16 people, including eight officers of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corp. or IRGC, and two Syrian civilians.
The top commander said Iran’s powerful missiles were able to pass through the defense shields set up by the U.S. and NATO and damaged two military centers in Israel.
He added that 80 percent of the projectiles deployed by the Islamic Republic would have pounded Israel during the April 13 attack if not for the intervention made by the American, British, and French troops.
Additionally, Iran claimed the Axis of Resistance expanded through the establishment of a militia group based in Bahrain called the Al-Ashtar Brigades (AAB).
The militia allegedly targeted an Israeli transportation company called Trucknet Enterprises in the southern Israeli port city of Eilat on April 27 and has launched terrorist attacks against the government of Bahrain in the past.
The credibility of Iran’s claims about the Bahrain-based group being part of the resistance has not been independently verified.
