IRANIAN communists have warned that Tehran’s missile attack against terrorist targets in Syria today could be used as “propaganda for regime change” by the US-led coalition.

Tudeh Party of Iran international secretary Navid Shomali said the air strikes — retaliation for the recent terror attack on a military parade in Ahvaz that killed at least 25 people — could increase tensions in the region and “provide a pretext for foreign intervention in the country.”

In a statement the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps claimed to have killed and injured “many terrorists” during air strikes which hit the border town of Albu Kamal.

It confirmed that six missiles were launched by its aerospace forces missile unit, which destroyed infrastructure and ammunition stockpiles in the Isis stronghold.

The missiles “targeted a base of the ringleaders of Ahvaz terrorist crimes to the east of the Euphrates in Syria with a number of surface-to-surface ballistic missiles” at 2am this morning. 

“Our iron fist is prepared to deliver a decisive and crushing response to any wickedness and mischief of the enemies,” the statement said.

Tudeh warned of a threat to the country’s national security following the Ahvaz attack on September 22. Mr Shomali said today’s actions could have “serious consequences in terms of an escalation of the conflict between the key antagonists in the region and provide a pretext for foreign intervention in the country.”

It comes at a time when the US and its Saudi Arabian allies are beating the drum for war and threatening imperialist intervention against Tehran.

The al-Ahwaz National Resistance — a movement demanding independence for Iran’s Khuzestan province — claimed responsibility for the attack which took place at the event marking the 38th anniversary of the start of the Iran-Iraq war.

Jihadist terror group Isis claimed its own militants had also taken part in the deadly assault and boasted of a number of cells operating in the country.

Syrian government sources had not confirmed the air strikes at the time the Star went to print. But the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said it had received reports of “violent explosions at dawn” in jihadist territory near the banks of the Euphrates north of Abu Kamal.

Iran has provided troops and military support to Syria to support the government in its fight to retake control of the country from jihadist terror groups.