The Iran regime’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps will continue to hold military drills in the western province of Kermanshah until Tuesday, the state-controlled IRNA media outlet announced on Sunday.
The exercises by a reported missile unit, which started on Friday near the Iraqi border, are taking place amid promises by Tehran to retaliate against Jerusalem for last month’s assassination of terror leader Ismail Haniyeh while he was sleeping at a guesthouse in Iran’s capital city.
A senior military official in the theocracy stated that the purpose of the training is to "enhance combat readiness and vigilance" while the regime’s rulers decide if or when they will go forward with their stated intentions to launch an offensive operation against the Jewish state.
Last week, sources told Axios that the White House believes the Islamic Republic will join its Lebanese ally Hezbollah in a two-wave incursion against Israeli targets. A report from The Institute for the Study of War suggested that this process may result in one party launching the first strike for the purpose of probing the country’s air defenses, civilian morale, organization, and responses.
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