The Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces IranAbdolrachim Mousavi, today called the inhabitants of his big cities today (17.06.2025) IsraelHaifa and Tel Aviv to evacuate them, warning of impending “punitive” attacks.
“Timing operations will be carried out soon,” Mousavi said in a videotaped message that promoted Iran’s state television network on the fifth day of the deadly military confrontation, which began on Friday after the mass attack by Israel.
Referring to Israel, Mousavi said that “the inhabitants of the occupied territories (Israel), especially in Tel Aviv and Haifa, are warmly encouraged to leave these areas for their own security.”
A little earlier, the guards of the Iranian revolution announced that they were launching an attack on Israeli air bases from which, according to themselves, fighter jets took off to bomb the Iranian territory.
“In this new wave of attacks, a large -scale missile operation was carried out against the Army of the Zionist army, which are the bases from which fighter aircraft of the regime take off our beloved country,” the guards said in a statement.