Iran Renews Missile Threat against Israel

Wednesday, 19 February 2025 | Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) renewed its threats on Tuesday to launch a third direct missile assault against Israel.

“True Promise III will be carried out at the appropriate time,” Brig. Gen. Ali Fadavi, the IRGC’s second-in-command, threatened in remarks published by Tehran’s semi-official Mehr News Agency.

Last year, the Islamic Republic conducted two major attacks against Israel, launching nearly 500 missiles and drones against the Jewish state.

The assaults, which were largely ineffective thanks to Israeli and allied defense measures that intercepted the vast majority of the projectiles, including guided ballistic missiles, were codenamed “True Promise I” (on the night of April 13-14) and “True Promise II” (on October 1) by Iran.

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said in November that Tehran reserves the right to respond to Israeli “aggressions,” emphasizing that action will be taken “at an appropriate time and in a way we think is right.”

Araghchi made it clear that Iran considers Jerusalem’s October response that reportedly took out most of Tehran’s air defenses as warranting a separate response.

In a separate announcement carried by Mehr on Tuesday, Brig. Gen. Alireza Sabahifard, the commander of Iran’s Air Defense Force, said that Tehran was “ready to deal with any threat because all the equipment we currently have is 100% indigenous.”

Sabahifard claimed that the Iranian-produced Bavar 373 air-defense battery “cannot be compared to any defense system in the world.”