Hassan Kazemi Komi, former Iraqi ambassador to Iran, said in a televised interview that 30 Israeli pilots were killed in one of Iran’s operations during the 12-day war. “This is not a small issue for the (Israel) regime,” he said, adding that many details have been censored by the Tel Aviv regime so far.
He emphasized that the enemy’s main objectives were to change Iran’s regime and return to the US country, but “they were unable to achieve any of their goals.”
Kazemi Komi stressed that Iranian troops under the leadership of the Islamic Revolution have hit Israel hard and hampered the broader agenda of the enemy in the region.
The Zionist regime fought a war of aggression against Iran on June 13, attacking Iranian troops, nuclear power and residential areas for 12 days, but the US carried out a military attack on three nuclear sites in Iran, Natanz, Fordau and Isfahan on June 22.
Iranian troops carried out a powerful counterattack shortly after the attack. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Aerospace Force implemented 22 waves of retaliation missiles against the Zionist regime as part of Operation True Promise III, which caused significant losses to cities across the occupying territories.
In response to the US attack, Iranian forces fired waves of missiles at Aldead Air Force Base in Qatar, the largest US military base in West Asia.
The battle was suspended due to a ceasefire that came into effect on June 24th.
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