“During various maneuvers, we had exercised attacking the Zionist regime’s bases and we were fully prepared to respond to the Zionist regime because they had made a strategic mistake in attacking [Iran’s] consulate,” Brigadier General Ramezan Sharif said on Saturday, according to Press TV English website.

He added that Iran’s retaliatory missile and drone strikes were a successful operation with special features that inflicted heavy damage on the Israeli regime.

Although Israel was equipped with state-of-the-art military technologies, Iran succeeded in identifying the weak points of the enemy during the operation and carrying out the airstrikes, he emphasized.

Sharif said the enemy falsely tried to imply that 99% of Iranian missiles and drones did not hit the target as the United States and other supporters of the Israeli regime verified Iran’s successful operation.

On April 1, the Israeli regime carried out terrorist airstrikes on the consular section of Iran’s embassy in the Syrian capital Damascus, which killed two IRGC generals, Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Zahedi and General Mohammad Hadi Haji Rahimi, as well as five of their accompanying officers.

In retaliation, the IRGC targeted the occupied territories on April 13 with a barrage of drones and missiles. The retaliatory strikes, dubbed Operation True Promise, inflicted damage on Israeli military bases across the occupied Palestinian territories.

MNA