"The missiles were launched in coordination with Syria", the IRGC official said.
After Iran launched missiles into Syria, an advisor to the Iranian foreign minister, Sheikh Hussein al-Islam, said that Israel "is the main enemy" of Iran and that Israel should be anxious.
The Shi'ite militias, known as Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF) helped Baghdad defend the country against the Islamic State militant group when Iraqi military and police divisions deserted en masse in 2014.
A Guard statement carried on its website said the strike came from its bases in western Iran.
Iran was aiming at terrorists in the ISIS-held Syrian town of Deir ez-Zor after the terrorist group claimed responsibility for the attacks on the Iranian parliament and at the shrine of Ayatollah Khomeini that killed 18 people, mostly civilians.
Guard spokesman Gen. Ramazan Sharif told The Associated Press on Tuesday the force's "local sources and drone films say that all the six missiles the Guard launched hit their targets".
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Yun then dispatched to North Korea and visited Warmbier June 12 with two doctors and demanded his release on humanitarian grounds. Otto Warmbier , 22, died at a hospital in Cincinnati, Ohio on Monday, a week after being released from North Korea in a coma.
Qassemi said the Islamic Republic believes terrorism is condemned in whatever form or place or under whatever pretext. Iranian leaders have accused Saudi Arabia of involvement in the twin attacks, which Riyadh denies. This is the first such missile strike from Iran since the Syria conflict began six years ago.
The weapons used in the Iranian strike were Shahab-3 medium-range ballistic missiles, which have a range of 800 miles, Israel's Channel 10 reported.
The Guard, which is also involved in the fight against the Islamic State group in neighboring Iraq, controls Iran's missile program.
Mostafa Tajzadeh, a leading Iranian politician and ally to President Hassan Rouhani, claimed this week that the Trump administration is too "fragile" to confront Iran and that if USA officials do "anything unwise against Iran", the Islamic Republic will see that Trump is "deposed", according to Farsi-language comments independently translated for the Washington Free Beacon. However, it stopped short of directly blaming the kingdom for the attack, though many in the country have expressed suspicion that Iran's regional rival had a hand in the assault.
The attack also came as emboldened Sunni Arab states - backed by U.S. President Donald Trump - are hardening their stance against Iran.
Netanyahu was a vocal opponent of the 2015 deal between Tehran and major powers that saw sanctions against Iran eased in return for curbs on its nuclear programme. Still, attacks on Shi'ite militias whenever they got sort of close to a US-backed rebel base, and a public narrative presenting the militias as necessarily in league with Iran, have found the USA heading down that path anyhow. When Iran unveiled the Zolfaghar in 2016, it bore a banner printed with a 2013 anti-Israeli quote by Khamenei saying that Iran will annihilate the cities of Tel Aviv and Haifa should Israel attack Iran.
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