Iran's IRGC-Affiliated Tasnim News Agency: Iran Has Adopted A 'New Strategy' To 'Restrain The Rabid Dogs' – i.e. Israel – 'Until They Regret' Their Actions
On the morning of June 19, 2025, after Iran launched dozens of missiles at population centers in Israel, resulting in, inter alia, a direct hit on Soroka Hospital in Beersheba, the Iranian news agency Tasnim, which is affiliated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), announced that Iran had adopted a new strategy to beat and punish "the rabid dog," namely Israel, "until it regrets" its actions. Tasnim explained that this new strategy – the essence of which is firing missiles with especially large warheads at population centers and civilian facilities – is aimed at inflicting severe damage and heavy civilian losses on Israel, "disproportionate" to Israel's attacks on nuclear facilities and missiles, in order to deter it from continuing its attacks on the Iranian regime.
The following is a translation of Tasnim's reports.
In a report titled "Restraining the Rabid Dogs – The Next Step," Tasnim said:
"Since yesterday evening [June 18, 2025], Iran has carried out several effective missile strikes against the Zionists, the last of them this morning [June 19], causing Israel severe shock and significant damage.
Image from Tasnim's report, posted following a missile attack on civilian areas and on Soroka Hospital in Israel, captioned: "Following the Zionist crimes, Iran has adopted a different strategy to punish Israel"
"The Israelis previously thought that Iran would simply follow them, step for step, and launch a round of missile attacks in [proportionate] response to each of their attacks. But after the great Zionist crime of the last few days, Iran has shown that it has adopted a different strategy, and that it is considering a new process in punishing Israel. This time, Iran has shown that it is advancing without pause, and that, instead of responding ad hoc, it is taking a new approach in 'stopping and hunting the rabid [Israeli] dogs'…"[1]
In another report about the same issue, Tasnim explained what the new strategy comprises:
"…Iran has chosen, as its specific strategy, 'to continue punishing the rabid dog by beating it until it regrets [its actions].' Iran won't be taken in by 'a temporary hiatus [in its attacks which will enable] the Zionists to recover,' and will continue its blows until the Zionists regret [their actions] and do not dare to continue their attacks [on the Iranian regime] and their barbaric conduct.
"Iran has announced that 'this time it will be different.' And for this reason, despite repeatedly showing restraint in the past, this time it carried out unprecedented attacks on the Zionists and will continue to do so 'in an ever-increasing manner.'
"Meanwhile, Iran has declared clearly that this time there is no 'proportionate response' on its agenda. In other words, Iran does not intend to wait for Israel to attack one of its facilities and then respond accordingly. Rather, we will be 'one step ahead' of the Zionists in terms of the magnitude [of our attacks], so that the Zionists will know that 'the situation has changed entirely.'
"[From now on,] 'sustainable deterrence' will be Iran's first step, and it will not be linked to an existential threat [to Iran]; such a link is a kind of [self-]restraint, which is unwise."[2]
[1] Tasnim (Iran), June 19, 2025.
[2] Tasnim (Iran), June 19, 2025.
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