General IRGC Claims Iran's Missile Attack Destroyed Israel's F-35 Fighter Jet

Israeli F-35 fighter jet base. (Wikimedia Commons/Amit Agronov/IDF Spokesperson's Unit)

JAKARTA - Iran's missile attack on Israel's military target earlier this month successfully destroyed many Israeli F-35 fighter jets, a senior general of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) said.

Speaking at a conference in Tehran on Wednesday, Brigadier General Ebrahim Jabbari said 90 percent of the missiles fired by Iran against the Israeli regime in Operation True Promise II on October 1 were successful against their targets.

During the missile attack, the IRGC carried out simultaneous "cyber and electronic warfare operations" against the Israeli regime's air defense system, which allowed the missile to hit the target, he explained, as reported by Mehr, October 10.

Brigadier General Jabbari said Iran's ballistic missile managed to hit the base and important hangar of the Israeli regime's F-35 fighter jet, which blew up a large number of these warplanes.

The Zionist and US regimes were completely shocked by military and intelligence surprises, although they had used all their advanced equipment to ward off Iranian attacks, he said.

It is known, Iran said the October 1 attack was a retaliation for the assassination of the Head of Political Bureau Hamas Ismail Haniyeh, Secretary General Hezbollah Hassan Nasrallah and senior IRGC general Brigadier General Abbas Nilforoushan. Iran launched about 200 ballistic missiles to military bases and intelligence of the Zionist regime throughout the occupied Palestinian territories.

Israel condemned the attack and promised to retaliate. Tehran then warned Israel not to try to retaliate or to face a more assertive response.