Given the recent attacks on Iran, we knew retaliation was coming. Tehran didn’t disappoint.

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said it had used ballistic missiles against an ISIS base in Syria and a stronghold of the Israeli spy service Mossad in Iraq on Monday, in retaliation for the recent terrorist bombings in Iran.

Two explosions killed almost 100 people in Kerman on January 3, as pilgrims gathered to honor the late General Qassem Soleimani, killed by the US in 2021. Islamic State (IS, also known as ISIS) claimed responsibility. Last month, another suicide bombing in the town of Rask killed 11 Iranian police. It was blamed on the Pakistan-based group Jaish Al-Adl.

“In response to the recent crimes of the terrorist groups that unjustly martyred a group of our dear compatriots in Kerman and Rask, we have identified gathering places of commanders and elements of ISIS related to recent terrorist operations in the occupied territories of Syria and destroyed them by firing a number of ballistic missiles,” the IRGC said in a statement.

In a follow-on statement, the IRGC said it had also used missiles against “one of the main espionage headquarters of the Zionist regime (Mossad) in the Kurdistan region of Iraq.”

And now we await more big tough words from the gasbag Lindsey Graham.

UPDATE: This was probably Iran’s largest and strongest effort ever, more powerful than the already devastating ass-stomping of the gay GAE in 2020 which you’re not supposed to know about or understand. And if THIS report is to be believed, then Tehran is at a totally new operational level. I’m sure all those GOP queers, liars, heathens, invaders, and murderers are talking about all this in Iowa or New Hampshire or Oz or wherever.