Threatened to expand the circle of revenge for Haifa and Dubai .. Iran announces the killing of 80 American soldiers in Iraq and monitors 100 targets in the region

Iranian television announced that preliminary information indicates that 80 American soldiers were killed in missile strikes on Ain al-Assad base in Anbar, western Iraq, while the Iranian Revolutionary Guard threatened to expand its strikes to include the UAE, Israel and American bases in the region in the event that Washington retaliated militarily.

The Revolutionary Guards said in a statement that today, Wednesday morning, it launched dozens of missiles at the base of Al-Assad, which includes American forces, as part of an operation that bore the name of "Qassem Soleimani", commander of the Revolutionary Guards Corps, who was assassinated by the American army at dawn last Friday, by a drone plane shortly after his arrival at the airport. Baghdad.

He added that the 800-km "Qam" and "Zulfiqar" ballistic missiles designed to hit American bases were used, and described the operation as a success.

The Iraqi Security Media Cell reported that the headquarters of the international coalition in Iraq were exposed at dawn today to 22 missiles, 17 of which landed on Ain al-Assad base without recording losses among the Iraqi forces.

For its part, the US Department of Defense (the Pentagon) confirmed that Iran launched 12 missiles at two Iraqi bases used by American and international coalition forces in Ain al-Assad in Anbar and in Erbil in the Kurdistan region.

The Pentagon said it is assessing the losses that may have been recorded in the two bases, and is studying the response to Iranian missile satellites.

As for US President Donald Trump, he said in a tweet on Twitter that the damage assessment was positive, and that "everything is fine", apparently indicating that the Iranian bombing has not resulted in loss of life.

But Iranian television said that his tweet aims to play down the damage caused by Iranian missiles.

Trump had a meeting with his top aides and the Joint Chiefs of Staff at the White House, and he was scheduled to make a speech, but it was canceled.

Missile strike
The Iranian Fars News Agency has published a video showing the first moments of the rocket fire into Iraqi territory.

A video clip showed that clouds of smoke rose from the base of Ein al-Assad, which includes multinational forces, confirming that it was hit, while Denmark, Norway, Australia, New Zealand and Canada announced that none of their soldiers there were injured in the bombing.

In Erbil, Iraqi security sources confirmed that an explosion was heard, while military sources indicated that a missile landed near the airport of the capital of the Kurdistan region without exploding, and another occurred in the neighboring agricultural lands without any casualties.

Shortly after targeting two bases in Iraq, the Revolutionary Guards said: The Iranian is monitoring 100 targets for America and its allies in the region, and threatened to hit these targets with any American aggression, as he put it.

The Revolutionary Guards also threatened US allies that receive American bases to target those bases if they launched an attack against Iranian sites.
In this context, he threatened a third wave that would destroy Dubai and Haifa if Washington responded to the missile strikes.

He said that in the event that US aircraft depart from Al Dhafra base towards Iran, "Dubai should bid farewell to the economic recovery."

The Revolutionary Guards also called on the United States to remove its military forces from Iraq "to avoid the fall of more American forces," the same position that was expressed later today by the leadership of the Iranian army.

America's prestige
Later in the day, a leader of the Revolutionary Guards said that part of the objectives of the Iranian response was to break the American prestige while it was at its height.

In this context, the chief of staff of the Iranian armed forces said that striking American bases in the region is only part of Iran's leadership in responding to the United States.

As for the political aide to the office of the commander of the Iranian armed forces, he said that if Washington committed what he described as foolishness, it would endanger Israel.

Days after the assassination of Soleimani and other Iranian officers, in addition to Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, the deputy head of the Iraqi Popular Mobilization Committee, Tehran indicated that 35 American targets had been set for striking it in retaliation for the commander of the Quds Force, at which point the US President responded that Washington would respond by hitting 52 goals.

Yesterday, the Secretary General of the Iranian National Security Council, Ali Shamkhani, said that the council had proposed 13 scenarios for revenge for Soleimani, who was buried today after the launch of the missiles into Iraq.