A Twitter account affiliated with the Iran Revolutionary Guards posted an explicit threat against Israel on Wednesday, saying, "Do you think it all ended with Erbil? You're running out of time."
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The post was alluding to an IRGC drone and missile attack on Erbil International Airport in northern Iraq last week. The area houses US-led coalition troops, but Iran claimed it targeted a base operated by the Mossad, Israel's intelligence agency, in Iraqi Kurdistan.
The strike was retaliation over an alleged Israeli strike on Damascus on March 7, during which two IRGC officers were killed, Iranian and Arab media reported.
האם אתם חושבים שהכל נגמר בארביל ؟
אין לכם הרבה זמן... pic.twitter.com/4mQs4ehujB
— کانال سپاه پاسداران | IRGC (@Sepah_FA) March 23, 2022
The post was published a few hours after Revolutionary Guard commander Maj. Gen. Hossein Salami warned Israel on Wednesday that it would face swift revenge if it continues to target members of the elite force in the Middle East, the semi-official Tasnim news agency reported.
"Be aware that we will not only take part in the funeral of our martyrs but also immediately take their revenge. This is a real and serious message. If your mischief is repeated, you will once again experience our attacks and suffer the bitter taste of our missile blows," Salami said.
"In recent weeks you have seen how Zionists are always wrong in their calculations and have been targeted by Revolutionary Guards missiles. We are warning them that they should cease their mischief or we will bury them alive," Salami added.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said shortly after the March 7 Israeli airstrike that it was the seventh of its kind in Syria this year and that the target was weapons and ammunition depot near Damascus airport.
Israel rarely comments on airstrikes in Syria but has confirmed that it has carried out hundreds of attacks on Iranian assets there since 2011, when Syria plunged into a civil war that has seen Iran insert its militias into the region. Israel has repeatedly stated that permanent Iranian military presence in Syria, the Jewish state's neighbor to the north, was a "red line" it would not tolerate.
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