Major General Ali Abdollahi, commander of Iran's Khatam al-Anbiya Headquarters, issued a statement saying Iranian forces have their 'finger on the trigger' and are ready to strike at 'the heart of the enemy.' The statement frames recent escalations, including from the '12-Day War' through 'Ramadan War,' as an opportunity for a 'historic settling of accounts,' and claims all Iranian military capabilities have been upgraded under Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei. No specific target or timeline was disclosed.
Major General Ali Abdollahi, commander of Iran's Khatam al-Anbiya Headquarters — the supreme unified command coordinating the IRGC and the regular military — issued a public statement at 19:59 Jerusalem time, asserting that Iranian forces are poised for immediate action.
The statement, carried by multiple Iranian-aligned channels, frames the escalations of the past year — which it terms the '12-Day War' and the 'Ramadan War' — as having created an opportunity for a 'historic settling of accounts.' Abdollahi claims that all branches of the armed forces, including missile, naval, drone, and air defense arrays, have been upgraded under the command of Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, and that personnel are 'with finger on the trigger, ready to fire at the heart of the enemy.'
This is the latest in a series of statements from the same command structure. At 19:52 Jerusalem, the Khatam al-Anbiya Headquarters itself first stated that the armed forces were prepared to 'strike the enemy's heart,' based on a Telegram post by Israeli journalist Chananel Aviv. At the same minute, a more specific statement attributed to the General Staff of the Armed Forces used the 'finger on the trigger' language, as reported by the Abu Ali Express channel. The Zioneer then reported at 19:56 that the General Staff had issued its warning. Today's statement, attributed to the senior operational commander, formalizes that posture at the highest command level and provides a named figure — Abdollahi — as its source, marking a shift from an anonymous command attribution to an identified general.
As The Zioneer reported at 15:44 Jerusalem, the same command previously threatened that 'Dahieh crimes will not go unanswered' following Israeli strikes on Hezbollah's Beirut stronghold. The broader background, as covered by The Zioneer, is that the Khatam al-Anbiya Headquarters is Iran's supreme unified military command responsible for operational coordination between the IRGC and the regular military.
No specific target, time, or operational plan was disclosed in any of the statements. The threats remain at the rhetorical level, with no independent verification of the claimed capability upgrades or of any imminent operational orders.
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