News - Middle East: A senior official with the Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement has hailed Iran’s recent retaliatory operation against Israel, describing the extensive missile and drone strikes as a historic development in the course of the struggle against the occupying Tel Aviv regime.

Sayyed Hashem Safieddine, head of Hezbollah’s Executive Council, said on Sunday that the Islamic Republic of Iran has long been a staunch advocate of resistance movements, stressing that the Axis of Resistance is deeply indebted to the country’s generous support in this regard.
“Throughout the retaliatory operation that the Islamic Republic of Iran carried out against the occupying enemy, scores of Iranian missiles and drones filled the skies over the occupied Palestinian territories. This was a historic development and presented a fine and outstanding example of what will soon unravel in support of Palestine,” he noted.
Safieddine added that Iran’s retaliatory strikes came as the country simply employed only a tiny fraction of its military strength, and did not bring its sophisticated indigenous munitions into action.
The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) launched extensive missile and drone strikes last week on the Israeli-occupied territories. The retaliatory strikes, dubbed Operation True Promise, inflicted damage on Israeli military bases across the occupied lands.
It came after the Israeli attack on April 1 against the Iranian consulate in Damascus, located next to the embassy building in Damascus’s Mezzeh district.
The airstrike killed two senior Iranian military personnel who were on an advisory mission to Syria as well as five of their accompanying officers.