Iran’s IRGC chief warns will hit Israel ‘painfully’ if attacks Iranian targets

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) chief Hossein Salami warned Thursday of further retaliation against Israel if it attacks Iranian targets, which Israel has vowed to do after Iran’s missile attack on Oct 1.“If you make a mistake and attack our targets, whether in the region or in Iran, we will strike you again painfully,” Salami said at the funeral of an IRGC general killed in an Israeli strike alongside Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah in Lebanon last month.Abbas Nilforoushan, a top commander in the IRGC Quds Force foreign operations arm, was killed on September 27 alongside Hassan Nasrallah, the chief of Lebanon’s Hezbollah, in an Israeli strike on south Beirut.For the latest updates on the Israel-Palestine conflict, visit our dedicated page.Funeral services for Nilforoushan, whose body the Guards said was recovered last week, began on Monday in Iraq. His body was then moved to Iran for burial in his hometown of Isfahan later Thursday.During his speech Salami criticized