Tel Aviv sustained extensive damagefrom Iranian missiles<\/p>\n
A senior Iranian commander underlines that the Islamic Republic only engaged less than five percent of its defensive might against the Israeli regime during the latter\u2019s recent unprovoked war against the country.<\/strong><\/p>\n Brigadier General Mohammad-Reza Naghdi, the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC)\u2019s deputy commander for coordination, made the remarks during a televised interview on Saturday.<\/p>\n \u201cLess than five percent of our country\u2019s defensive capacity was actually activated\u201d during the Islamic Republic\u2019s counterstrikes against the regime, he noted.<\/p>\n \u201cAnd by \u2018activated\u2019 I do not mean \u2018spent.\u2019 It merely means that five percent of our defense units became engaged with the enemy,\u201d the official stated.<\/p>\n \u201cThis means our principal capabilities remain untouched and have not entered the fray at all,\u201d he noted, reasserting, \u201cThe full magnitude of our forces has yet to reveal itself; it has not even come onto the stage [yet].\u201d<\/p>\n The Israeli regime launched the warfare on June 13, prompting the Islamic Republic to respond with a whopping number of ballistic missiles, including hypersonic variants, which were fired towards strategic nuclear, military, and industrial targets across the occupied Palestinian territories.<\/p>\n A flurry of footage was circulated online during the retaliation and throughout its aftermath, showing the sheer extent of the damage afflicted on the targets that included the very airbases, from which the regime had initiated its assaults.<\/p>\n Earlier, military experts cited by many Western media outlets noted how, besides the full range of the regime\u2019s missile systems, the United States \u2013 Tel Aviv\u2019s biggest ally \u2013 had also lent full-on support behind its attempts at minimizing the damage from the Iranian reprisal.<\/p>\n According to the experts, the US activated no less than two of its seven-strong much-hyped THAAD missile platforms throughout the globe to deflect the Iranian counterblows throughout the war\u2019s 12-day span.<\/p>\n The support operations, they added, cost Washington more than $800 million.<\/p>\n According to Naghdi \u2013 while the retaliation relied mainly on the Islamic Republic\u2019s air defense capabilities \u2013 the strength of the country\u2019s armed forces principally rests in its ground forces.<\/p>\n \u201cWe are well-equipped to fight. Perhaps we could keep attacking the enemy like this for several years, striking them with missiles at this same pace,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\u2018Iran could keep striking enemy for several years\u2019<\/strong><\/h2>\n