IRGC vows revenge for three-day-old infant martyred in US-Israeli aggression

The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has issued a vow of retaliation following the martyrdom of a three-day-old infant and his family in a brutal American-Israeli attack on a rural home near the city of Arak.

In a statement released Monday, the IRGC detailed the horrific crime.

“The bloodthirsty child-killing henchmen of the US army and the Zionist regime, in a savage attack on a rural home in the outskirts of Arak at dawn today, martyred a 3-day-old nursing infant in the warm embrace of his martyred mother, along with his 2-year-old sister and grandmother".

The IRGC statement emphasized that this "oppressed martyrdom of this nursing infant is yet another document of the savagery and child-killing of the Zionist regime and America, following their targeting of schools and clinics".

This attack follows the devastating Minab school massacre on the first day of the war, February 28, when a missile strike destroyed a girls' elementary school in the southern city of Minab, killing between around 170 pupils.

The IRGC criticized the silence and inaction of human rights bodies, regional and world leaders, and human rights advocates regarding American and Israeli crimes.

"The silence and inaction of legal human rights assemblies, the rulers of the region and the world, and those concerned with human rights regarding the crimes of America and the Zionist regime has led to the expansion of the insolence and genocides of these malicious regimes," the statement read.

The IRGC declared that the innocent blood spilled would only strengthen Iran's resolve in its war against American and Zionist aggressors.

"However, the unjustly shed blood of our three-day-old Mojtaba makes us more determined in the war against the vile American and Zionist thugs," the statement affirmed.

The force issued a warning to all those involved.

“The perpetrators, instigators, and executors of these crimes should await retribution for the blood of the oppressed Mojtaba,” it said.

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