News - Middle East: As many as 3,000 Sunni scholars have written to Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, expressing their gratitude and support for the implementation of Iran’s recent operation against the occupied Palestinian territories.

In a letter addressed to the Leader on Monday, the scholars thanked Ayatollah Khamenei for “the strong and wise leadership” that led to the execution of the operation by the country’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) following a period of self-restraint.

The operation targeted the heart of the occupied territories with the “flames of the Muslim nation’s wrath, relieving the bereaved Palestinians and all of the world’s free-thinking people,” they wrote.

The operation also strengthened those fighting towards liberation of the holy occupied al-Quds to keep up their struggle against “the evil Zionist regime until the end of the dishonorable existence of this illegitimate child of the global arrogance,” they added.

On Tuesday, the Islamic Republic launched 200 missiles towards Israeli military and intelligence bases all over the occupied territories as part of Operation True Promise II in response to the Israeli regime’s deadly aggression against the country and other regional nations.

The aggression that prompted the retaliation had, among other things, led to the martyrdom of Hamas’s political leader Ismail Haniyeh, Hezbollah’s leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, and Abbas Nilforoushan, a senior IRGC commander.

The scholars also voiced their gratitude over the remarks that were made by the Leader during Friday prayers in Tehran following the operation.

Delivering the sermon, Ayatollah Khamenei hailed “the brilliant work” of the Iranian Armed Forces,” while describing the operation as ”completely legal and legitimate” and “the least punishment for the usurping Zionist regime over the astonishing crimes of this wolf-like regime and rabid dog of America.”

Sayyed Kamenai also asserted, “Whatever duty the Islamic Republic has in this regard, it will fulfill with strength and fortitude. We will neither delay nor hurry in carrying out the task."

Press TV