Task and Purpose
A senior Iranian military official claims that the country’s elite Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps had plans to attack 400 American targets across the Middle East if the U.S. retaliated against Iran for its attack on Al-Asad Air Base in Iraq in January.
“The day we attacked on Ain al-Asad, we thought the US forces would respond after 20 minutes, so we were ready to attack 400 American targets,” Brig. Gen. Amir Ali Hajizadeh, chief of the IRGC’s Aerospace Force, told Iranian state media outlet Mehr News on Friday.
“Our plan was to attack 400 US targets if they responded,” he added.
