Iran's Revolutionary Guards commander Hossein Salami said Tehran would hit Israel "painfully" if it attacked its targets, while sources said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had approved a set of targets to hit inside Iran.

During the funeral of the Revolutionary Guards commander Abbas Nilforoushan, who was killed in the Lebanese capital Beirut last September in an Israeli airstrike, Salami said that the Israeli enemy "made a mistake in targeting resistance leaders and thought we would not respond."

"We assure the enemy that Operation True Promise 2 was just a warning," he continued, noting that "Israel, Iran's enemies, are suffering losses" due to their miscalculations.

He added, "If the enemy targets our lands, we will target his lands, and he knows that we will fulfill what we say."

In early October, Iran launched an attack on Israel, using about 180 missiles. Tehran said it was in retaliation for the assassination of Ismail Haniyeh, head of the political bureau of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), Hassan Nasrallah, Secretary-General of Hezbollah, and Nilforoushan.

Israel assassinated Nasrallah and others, including Nilforoushan, in an air strike on Beirut's southern suburbs on September 27.

As for Haniyeh, he was assassinated in a bombing that targeted his residence during a visit to Tehran at the end of last July, and Iran accuses Israel of assassinating him.

Approval and objectives

Earlier, the American ABC network quoted an Israeli source as saying that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had approved a group of targets to strike inside Iran, in response to Tehran launching about 200 ballistic missiles at Israel in early October.

The source, who did not reveal his identity, indicated that despite the approval of the group of targets, the timetable for the attack has not been determined.

Two days ago, the New York Times quoted officials as saying that Israel had agreed to update military targets in Iran, in light of American statements calling on Israel to avoid bombing oil or nuclear facilities.

According to an official who spoke to the New York Times, the military targets in Iran include missile and drone launch pads and their factories, as well as government buildings.

The targets could also include Iranian nuclear research labs, while avoiding enrichment sites, officials said.

Since September 23, Israel has expanded the scope of the genocide it has been committing in the Gaza Strip since October 7, 2023, to include most areas of Lebanon, including the capital Beirut, through air strikes.