In February, Michael Flynn, who was then USA national security adviser and has since resigned, said the Trump administration was "putting Iran on notice" following an Iranian missile test and an attack on a Saudi warship by Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen.
ISIS fighters during a gun battle in Deir el-Zour in 2015 in a photo released by the terror group's propaganda wing.
Five Islamic State-linked attackers stormed Iran's parliament and a shrine to revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini on June 7, killing at least 17 people and wounding more than 50.
Syrian opposition activist Omar Abu Laila, who is based in Germany but closely follows events in his native Deir el-Zour, said two Iranian missiles fell near and inside the eastern town of Mayadeen, an Islamic State stronghold.
Iran has been formally PUT ON NOTICE for firing a ballistic missile.Should have been thankful for the awful deal the USA made with them!
It marked the first time Tehran has fired into Syria from Iranian territory, using bases in Kermanshah and Kurdistan.
On Sunday, the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) pounded Daesh headquarters in Syria's Dayr al-Zawr with ballistic missiles fired from western Iran.
The missile operation "is just a very small part of the capability of Iran's punitive force against the terrorists and its enemies", the Islamic Students' News Agency quoted Guards spokesman Ramezan Sharif as telling state TV.
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While that has been a non-starter for the United States , experts say this could be an opening gambit from Pyongyang. ICBMs have a minimum range of about 5,500km, but some are created to travel 10,000km or farther.
But it was also meant to show that "Iran, in its fight against terrorism, needs missiles - and sanctions have no influence on its defence policies".
In last Wednesday's testimony to the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Tillerson accused Iran of seeking "hegemony" in the Middle East at the expense of USA allies like Saudi Arabia.
The presence of Iranian-backed troops, artillery and tanks and USA -led coalition forces in southern Syria, namely around the at-Tanf crossing at the Iraq-Syria border, has slowly turned the area into a flash point.
The regional and worldwide sponsors of the terrorists must receive the revealing message of the assault, ' he said.
The attack also sends a clear warning signal to Saudi Arabia which has been trying for some time to test Iran's patience.
In Canberra, a Defense Department statement said on Tuesday that "Australian Defense Force protection is regularly reviewed in response to a range of potential threats".
The strike was "a great deal less impressive than the media noise being made in Iran around the launch", Israeli military sources told Haaretz. He added, "Regional and worldwide sponsors of terrorists must understand the warning message of the missile operation". "I have one message for Iran: Don't threaten Israel", Netanyahu said.
The countermeasure killed dozens of ISIL terrorists, including six of the group's Libyan commanders, with one of the missiles reportedly hitting a ISIL command center in the province's city of al-Mayadin.
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