The advisor to the commander-in-chief of Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps has declared that the enemy's airspace is now fully under the control of Iran's armed forces, as Tehran asserts that it is prepared for the most complex military scenarios the confrontation may produce.

Brigadier General Reza Mahdian, advisor to the IRGC commander-in-chief, said the enemy is now "begging" Tehran as a direct result of the deterrent power Iran's armed forces have accumulated.

He stressed that Washington's destabilization plans for the region have been thwarted, forcing what he called "aggression forces" to retreat.

Mahdian's remarks align with remarks by senior Iranian officials in recent days. A senior Iranian political and security official told Al Mayadeen earlier this week that after targeting and destroying US and Israeli air defense systems and radar infrastructure across the region, Iran has established "full control" over the Israeli entity's airspace.

IRGC Aerospace Force Commander Brigadier General Majid Mousavi made a parallel declaration last week, formally announcing "Iran's missile control over the skies of the occupied territories."

The war's origins

Mahdian also revealed a deliberate intelligence operation by "Israel" targeting the US administration, explaining that documents related to protests inside Iran were manipulated using artificial intelligence to convince US President Donald Trump that the Islamic Republic had lost its popular legitimacy, pushing him toward a war gamble Mahdian asserts was orchestrated directly by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

The claim finds grounding in Western reporting on the war's origins. According to The New York Times, Mossad Director David Barnea sold the war to Netanyahu on the premise that mass bombardment and assassinations would ignite an uprising capable of toppling the Islamic Republic from within, a promise Netanyahu had taken to senior Trump administration officials in Washington in mid-January.

Meanwhile, Iranian lawmakers affirmed in a formal statement on Thursday that the country's "Sacred Defense" must continue until all threats are removed and the possibility of future attacks on Iranian territory is fully eliminated.

The Iranian Parliament called for the defense to persist until all US and Israeli bases and forces are dismantled and withdrawn from West Asia.

Wave 83 of OTP 4

Overnight, the IRGC announced the 83rd wave of Operation True Promise 4, employing long- and medium-range precision missiles with multiple warheads alongside one-way attack and loitering drones.

Targets included oil storage facilities and military positions in Asdud, Israeli occupation army units in the settlement of Madaiin, US bases at Al Dhafra and Al Udeid, a US military intelligence exchange center, fuel depots, and Patriot system maintenance facilities at Sheikh Isa base. The IRGC declared the operation a "complete success."

Iranian Armed Forces spokesman Brigadier General Abolfazl Shekarchi said Thursday that between 600 and 800 American soldiers have been killed and nearly 5,000 injured since the war began on February 28, describing the US army as a "paper tiger."

He added that 17 US military bases across the region have been destroyed. The New York Times separately reported that sustained Iranian strikes have rendered several key installations in Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, and Saudi Arabia largely uninhabitable, forcing thousands of troops to disperse to improvised locations, including hotels and office buildings, with some personnel relocated as far as Europe.