Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) Quds Force Brigadier General Esmail Qaani warned that the U.S. and Israel should expect new surprises after several American aircraft were shot down by Iran over the skies of the country.
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Writing on X on Sunday, Qaani reminded the U.S. that its previous rescue operations inside Iran had ended in failure just as its most recent bid to retrieve a downed airman resulted in the loss of two American military jets and two helicopters.
He drew parallels between the U.S. mission in recent days and the 1980 Operation Eagle Claw, also known as the Tabas disaster, in which a U.S. mission to free American spies in Iran failed in the desert.
On Friday, Iran destroyed two U.S. C-130 transport aircraft and two Black Hawk helicopters, which had come to rescue the airman whose F-15 fighter jet had been shot down by Tehran.
“Smoke rising from the South of Isfahan and the charred Israeli vessel in the Med echo the 1980 Tabas fiasco and the 2006 Sa’ar naval disaster,” Qaani wrote.
By mentioning the “charred Israeli vessel” in the Mediterranean, the top general was referring to a statement by Hezbollah, which stressed it had targeted an Israeli warship about 68 nautical miles off Lebanon’s coast.
He further warned that the “Epstein elite” should expect further “surprises” across the region.
“More dead-end and Desert One disasters, this time across the entire region,” Brig. Gen. Qaani added.
