Iran's Armed Forces Chief of Staff says Al-Aqsa Storm exceeded Israeli expectations

General Abdollahi, Chief of Staff of Iran's Armed Forces, issued a message on Wednesday marking the third anniversary of Operation Al-Aqsa Storm, which was launched on October 7, 2023. In the statement, he said the operation went beyond the imagination of what he described as the fake Zionist regime, disrupted the calculations of the Resistance Front's enemies, and inflicted a severe blow to the Zionist enemy.

According to the message, October 7 transformed the Resistance Front's defensive strategy into an offensive one, aimed at the legitimate defense of the Palestinian people and their land. General Abdollahi added that Operation Al-Aqsa Storm accelerated the decline of the usurping, child-killing, and oppressive Zionist regime.

He stated that the enemies of the Islamic Ummah, particularly the criminal Zionists, must realize that the heroic legacies of the Resistance Front's martyrs will continue and ultimately bring about the end of the occupying regime of Israel. Among those he named were former Iran IRGC Quds Force Commander martyr Lt. General Qassem Soleimani, former Secretary General of Lebanon's Hezbollah Resistance Movement martyr Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah, former Hamas Political Bureau Chief martyr Ismail Haniyeh, and martyr Yahya Sinwar.

General Abdollahi underlined that, relying upon the assistance of God Almighty, and the recommendations of the martyred Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei and the guidelines of Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Mojtaba Khamenei, defending the sacred cause of Palestine and the Resistance Front will continue until the liberation of Al-Quds.

The message was released on the occasion of October 07, 2023, which marks the third anniversary of the operation. The Mehr News report added that the statement emphasized the continuity of the Resistance Front's path and its objectives.