Wednesday's suicide car bombing, which the Sunni Jaish ul-Adl group has claimed responsibility for, left 27 elite Iranian guards dead and many severely wounded.
The chief commander of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), General Mohammad Ali Jafari, has warned neighboring Saudi Arabia and the UAE that they could face retaliation for throwing their support behind terrorists, on the US' and Israel's orders. He stressed Saturday that Iran would give a “decisive” response to a Wednesday terrorist attack, which killed 27 IRGC border guards in Iran's south-eastern provinces of Sistan and Baluchestan.
“The patience that the establishment once exercised against conspiracies and reactionary regimes in the region, especially Saudi Arabia and the UAE which carry out these acts on orders from the US and the Zionist regime, will be different and we will definitely take reparative measures”, he was quoted by Iranian media as saying.
“The treacherous government of Saudi and Emirates should know that the patience of the Islamic Republic about your hidden support for criminals and Takfiri groups has come to an end and Iran will not tolerate it anymore”, said Jafari in a speech to the crowd. He reportedly asked President Hassan Rouhani to give the IRGC freedom to retaliate.
Jafari went on to state resolutely that the enemies must take into account that “the comrades of these…
