Iran's attack on Syria failed, as the majority of the Zulqifar missiles missed their target. "The people expected such response from Iran", Shakuri told Trend June 19.
"The Islamic Republic of Iran is standing on the front line, with powerful countries, in terms of missile power", Boroujerdi said following the attack.
He spoke as part of a TV package about the missile launches, showing them shoot off into the night from the western province of Kermanshah. "If the evil and satanic measures against the Iranian nation are repeated, the revolutionary anger and flames of (the Guard's) revenge will engulf the perpetrators and lead the criminals to hell". The extremists increasingly have fled to Deir el-Zour as the Islamic State group's de facto capital of Raqqa has come under punishing US -led airstrikes. The U.S. also downed a Syrian government warplane earlier this week in northern Syria.
The confrontation in Syria on Sunday began around 4:30 p.m. local time when USA -backed ground Syrian fighters, who are officially called the Syrian Democratic Forces, came under attack by what the Pentagon described only as "pro-Syrian regime forces" and were forced from their positions in the town of Ja'Din, south of Tabqah. The attack last week, which included shootings and at least one suicide bombing, was on Iran's parliament and the shrine of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the founder of the Islamic Republic.
The Syrian government forces' march toward the Jordanian border comes two weeks after they reached the border with Iraq for the first time in years.
Sharif said the missile launch reflected Iran's "military power", though Iran has no intention of starting another war.
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The US military said it has shot down an armed, Iranian-made drone that had been bearing down on its forces near a garrison in Syria's south-east, in the latest sign of increasingly frequent confrontation with Damascus and its allies.
Analysts say that more robust USA military action in Syria since President Donald Trump took office in January has resulted from his decision to give the military more autonomy in how it pursues the war on Islamic State.
Targeting "headquarters and gathering centers of Takfiri terrorists" in the Deir al Zour region of eastern Syria, the missiles passed through the Iraqi airspace.
"The Coalition has made it clear to all parties publicly and through the de-confliction line with Russian forces that the demonstrated hostile intent and actions of pro-regime forces toward Coalition and partner forces in Syria conducting legitimate counter-ISIS operations will not be tolerated", US military officials said.
Israeli Chief of Staff General Gadi Eisenkot attends an official memorial ceremony marking the tenth anniversary of the 2006 war between Israel and Lebanon's Hezbollah movement, at the military cemetery of Mount Herzl in Jerusalem on July 19, 2016. "I have one message for Iran: Don't threaten Israel" he warned.
"Tehran's muscle flexing was aimed at US and Saudi Arabia, in particular in the context of recent developments in the region", said Kamran Matin, an analyst at the University of Sussex. Iran, while rejecting the claims, says its missiles are for defense only. The Iranian drone that was shot down Tuesday was outside the deconfliction area, the official said.
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