TEHRAN – A senior member of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps(IRGC) alerted Israel Friday that Tehran’s “hands are on the trigger andmissiles are ready” to strike all Israeli air bases after a map of airbases in Syria believed to be controlled by Iran was shared with Israelimedia earlier this week.

In a bellicose speech given in Tehran, IRGC Deputy Commander BrigadierGeneral Hossein Salami warned that Israel was living “in the dragon’smouth” since northern and western Israeli bases were “in the range of ourmissiles.”

​”Don’t trust your airbases. They’re within reach,” he said, adding that”wherever you are in the occupied land, you’ll be under fire from us,from east and west. You became arrogant. If there’s a war, the result willbe your complete elimination.”

According to the Times of Israel, the remarks were “in apparent reactionto Israel’s publication on Tuesday of a map showing five Tehran-controlledbases in Syria.”

On April 9, Israeli aircraft fired upon the T-4 air base in central Syria,which Moscow, Damascus, Tehran and some US officials confirmed at the time.On Wednesday, the Wall Street Journal reported that the strike wasdiscussed at the highest levels of the US-Israel alliance, with PrimeMinister Benjamin Netanyahu conferring with US President Donald Trumpbefore ordering the strike.

The strike targeted Iranian air-defense equipment and elements of Iran’sdrone program, the WSJ reported. While Netanyahu’s government has refusedto comment on the strike, the Times of Israel notes, a senior Israelimilitary official told Thomas Friedman of the New York Times this week that”it was the first time we attacked live Iranian targets — both facilitiesand people.”