IRGC touts battlefield 'surprises' in anniversary statement

In a statement marking the anniversary of its founding, Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has declared it is prepared to create battlefield 'surprises greater than the enemy's circle of understanding and calculation.' The IRGC boasted that its 'lethal and devastating missile and drone strikes' have driven the 'Zionist enemy and the terrorist and criminal Americans to desperation and exhaustion.' The statement credits public support over '50 days and nights' for creating a 'unique event in contemporary history' and frames the IRGC as the primary obstacle to anti-Iranian strategies. It also references a 'system of 100 waves of combined missile-drone operations' as a key component of its strategic power.