May 28: Leader warns of enemy plots to sow discord as IRGC responds to fresh US aggression

By Press TV Website Staff

Leader of the Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Seyyed Mojtaba Khamenei, said on Thursday that the United States and Israel are seeking to sow discord within Iran after failing to achieve their objectives through military aggression, stressing the importance of safeguarding national unity.

Iran issued a stern warning to the US following fresh American strikes near Bandar Abbas.

The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) announced that it had carried out a retaliatory strike against the US military site in the region from which the attack originated and forced a US tanker to reverse course in the Strait of Hormuz.

Senior Iranian officials also demanded the release of the country’s frozen assets and condemned repeated US violations of the ongoing ceasefire.

Meanwhile, Israeli attacks in southern Lebanon continued unabated, assassinating a former al-Alam correspondent along with several civilians.

Key developments on day 90 of the war, the fiftieth day of the ceasefire:

• Leader of the Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Seyyed Mojtaba Khamenei, said the United States and Israel, who have failed in their military aggression on Iran, are now plotting to sow discord inside Iran to “compensate for their defeats on the military field and bring the nation to its knees.” 
• The IRGC warned the enemies that any fresh act of aggression against the Islamic Republic will not go unanswered. The IRGC issued the warning after US forces launched strikes on the southern Iranian port city of Bandar Abbas.
• Following the US military aggression on the outskirts of Bandar Abbas Airport with aerial projectiles, the IRGC carried out new strikes targeting the US air base from which the attack originated in the wee hours of Thursday.
• A report said the IRGC Navy forced an American tanker trying to illegally cross the Strait of Hormuz, despite Iran's restrictions, to turn back.
• Iran strongly condemned the repeated American threats against the Islamic Republic and violations of the ceasefire, urging the UN to intervene.
• Ali Bagheri, deputy secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, said Iran's powerful defence has shown that the "feast of vampires" has ended. He laid out Tehran's vision for a new security architecture in West Asia following a 40-day war of aggression imposed by the US and Israel.
• Bagheri urged the United States to “unconditionally” release all the country’s frozen assets, describing the demand as the “legal right” of the Iranian people.
• Brigadier General Majid Ibn Reza, Iran’s acting Defence Minister, said the country’s armed forces, backed by the nation’s support, managed to inflict a "historic defeat" on the US and the Israeli regime in their two imposed wars.
• Kazem Gharibabadi, Deputy Foreign Minister for Legal and International Affairs, warned that Tehran will deliver a "proportionate response" to any continued US provocations, after the IRGC struck an American military site in the Persian Gulf in retaliation for a US attack on an airport in southern Iran.
• US imposed unlawful sanctions on Iran’s Persian Gulf Strait Authority (PGSA) in a desperate attempt to prevent the country from exercising its sovereign rights over the strategic waterway following failed military operations
• Ebrahim Azizi, Iranian Parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Committee, stated that US President Donald Trump's on-again, off-again recourse to his menacing rhetoric addressing the Islamic Republic will not force the country to retreat from its red lines.
• Tabriz International Airport resumed operations on Wednesday, nearly two months after it was put out of service by airstrikes during the 40-day terrorist war launched by the United States and Israel.
• A new analysis shows that the United States may need years to rebuild key missile inventories depleted during the 40-day campaign of aggression against Iran, warning that the shortfall has created a "window of vulnerability" in the event of a future engagement in the Western Pacific.
• An Israeli airstrike killed Hussam Zaidan, a former correspondent for Iran's Arabic-language al-Alam TV, alongside three other civilians in southern Lebanon.
• At least one Israeli soldier was killed, and two others sustained injuries after fighters from the Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement launched an operation targeting the Tel Aviv regime's military positions and equipment inside the occupied territories.
• Israel expanded its military aggression to Beirut for the second time since a ceasefire went into effect in early April. According to Hebrew media reports, the strike was approved by Washington, which has permitted Israel to carry out only "targeted" air raids on the capital.

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