(Left to right) Major Sajjad Mansouri, Sergeant Mohammad-Mehdi Shahrokhifar, Sergeant Mehdi Naghavi, and Major Hamzeh Jahandideh, members of Iranian Army who were martyred in Israeli aggression on the country on October 26, 2024. Photo: PressTV.
The death toll from the overnight Zionist aggression against a number of military positions across Iran on Saturday has risen to four.
In early morning of Saturday, October 26, the Iranian Army announced the martyrdom of two of its soldiers in the attack, who lost their lives “while confronting the projectiles of the criminal Zionist regime in order to safeguard the security of Iran and prevent harm to the Iranian nation and interests.”
The two martyra were identified as Major Hamzeh Jahandideh and Sergeant Mohammad-Mehdi Shahrokhifar.
Later on Saturday, Major Sajjad Mansouri and Sergeant Mehdi Naghavi, who had been injured in line of duty, also succumbed to their injuries.
The strikes targeted some military sites in the capital Tehran as well as the western and southwestern provinces of Ilam and Khuzestan, with Iran’s air defense declaring that the attacks were “successfully intercepted and countered.”
The attacks caused “limited damage” in some locations and the dimensions of the incident are under investigation.
Despite Israeli media reports overplaying the Israeli attack by circulating fake images, the Iranian public returned to their routines and daily life continued smoothly across the country.
Iran’s Civil Aviation Organization announced that flights had resumed after a short interruption, and footage from Mehrabad Airport in western Tehran showed operations running normally, with passengers moving through as usual.
The Tehran Oil Refining Company also dismissed rumors of an Israeli attack on its facilities.
On October 1, Iran responded to the Israeli assassination of Hamas political bureau chief Ismail Haniyeh, Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, and senior IRGC Commander Abbas Nilforoushan by launching as many as 200 ballistic missiles toward the occupying regime’s military and intelligence bases all over the occupied Palestinian territories.
Dubbed Operation True Promise II, the retaliatory strike dealt a severe blow to the illegal regime, more ruinous than its prequel in April, with “Israel” having so far declined to reveal the extent of loss it suffered, despite vowing to respond on several occasions.
(PressTV)
