Iran fired missiles on Sunday into eastern Syria, aiming at the bases of militant groups it holds responsible for attacks in Tehran which left 18 dead last week, Iran's Tasnim news agency reported.
This strike marks the first time Iran has fired missiles as an act of war since the end of the Iran-Iraq war in 1988.
Iran's Revolutionary Guard has said that all six ballistic missiles it launched at Islamic State militants in Syria this week hit their targets.
A senior Iranian leader and confidant of the Islamic Republic's president is threatening to "depose" President Donald Trump if he continues his policy of confronting Iran and its terror proxy groups in the Middle East, according to recent comments that come as Iranian military leaders threaten missile strikes on USA forces and bases in the region. Iran presented the missile strike as a response to twin IS terror attacks in Iran on June 7 in which 17 people were killed, and Revolutionary Guards officials warned that other assaults on Iran would lead to similar retaliatory attacks.
Russia, like Iran, an ally of Syrian regime leader Bashar al Assad, issued a warning of its own to the United States in response to the downing of the Syrian jet, saying on Monday it would view as targets any planes flying west of the Euphrates river, though it stopped short of saying it would shoot any down.
While Iran has other ballistic missiles it says can reach longer distances, Sunday night's launch appears to mark the longest strike it has launched overseas.
"If the Iranians were trying to show their capabilities and to signal to Israel and to the Americans that these missiles are operational, the result was rather different", analyst for Israel's Channel 2 broadcaster Ehud Yaari said.
Iran's missile attack into Syria this past Sunday was deemed a failure. "It was far from a direct hit or what they have said", he told the Herzliya Conference Tuesday evening.
It also raises questions about how U.S. President Donald Trump's administration, which already said it put Iran "on notice" for its ballistic missile tests, will respond.
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The missile strikes are also being used to warn "some reactionary countries" of the sub-region, and Saudi Arabia was expressly singled out as one of them, with allegations that "they are trying to bring insecurity into Iran".
Australia on Tuesday suspended its airstrikes against IS targets in Syria as a precaution, after Russian Federation announced it was suspending the hotline and warned the U.S. -led coalition not to fly over Syrian army positions west of the Euphrates River. On Tuesday, he mocked Iran's first strike against ISIS in Syria.
Speaking to The Times of Israel later Monday, Ya'ari said his information was based on security sources, and that these sources were "amazed" at the poor performance of the Iranian missiles.
The official was not authorized to be quoted by name and spoke on condition of anonymity.
The confrontation in Syria on Sunday began around 4:30 p.m. local time when US -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.
"We have never had a coherent Syrian strategy", said one USA official, speaking on condition of anonymity.
The U.S. -led coalition, which has in recent weeks escalated its aerial bombing campaign in northern Syria and Raqqa province.
Khamenei said the USA forces should not be allowed to enter Iraq "under the pretext of training (Iraqi forces) or other issues", quoted Tehran Times daily.
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