Iran's Revolutionary Guards Threaten Israel With Strike 'Before Dawn Tomorrow'
The IRGC warned Israel to prepare its shelters and expect a "jolting response" before dawn Sunday, saying the era of acting without consequence is over.
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps issued a stark threat against Israel Saturday, warning of an imminent and devastating response to Israeli strikes on Beirut's Dahiyeh district and declaring that "the battlefield will have its say tonight."
In an official statement, the IRGC said it had repeatedly warned that Beirut's southern suburb constitutes a red line, and that Israel had been notified through multiple channels that any strike on the area would carry severe consequences.
"We made clear to the Zionist enemy unequivocally and through various channels that any harm to this area or to the sovereignty of the resistance and its symbols is playing with fire that could burn its fragile entity," the statement read.
The Guards accused Israel of ignoring those warnings and said its continued aggression proves it "understands only the language of force."
Most significantly, the statement included a direct timeline, warning Israel to expect a response before dawn on Sunday and urging it to "prepare its shelters."
"The era of acting without consequence has passed, and the hour of reckoning is approaching," the IRGC said. "The enemy faces a jolting response that will shake the foundations of its occupying entity, serve as a lesson it will not forget, and begin before tomorrow's dawn."
The statement comes amid heightened tensions following Israeli strikes on Dahiyeh earlier today and amid ongoing, fragile nuclear negotiations between Tehran and Washington.