“On Sunday, Iranian outlets reported that their country’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps Aerospace Force (IRGC-AF) fired several missiles against ‘Takfiri terrorists’ in the Syrian governorate of Deir ez-Zor. The strikes were reportedly retaliatory in nature, in response to the Islamic State’s twin terrorist attacks in Tehran earlier in June [see Long War Journal report]. According to a press release by the public relations arm of the IRGC, the Guard Corps vowed ‘to never leave unanswered the spilling of the blood of the pure.’”
Source: Iranian media reports missile strike in Syria | FDD’s Long War Journal
