TEHRAN-The closing ceremony of the first edition of True Promise artistic event was held at the Art Bureau in Tehran on Sunday and the winners of different categories received their awards.

According to the public relations of the Art Bureau, the event was organized by the Art Bureau of the Islamic Ideology Dissemination Organization and the Cultural Affairs Department of the Aerospace Force of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

The True Promise artistic event covered various art fields, including literature, animation, visual arts, music, as well as podcasting and stand-up comedy,

The event was organized to highlight the Operation True Promise, which was a natural and legitimate response to the Israel's terrorist airstrikes on the consular section of Iran's embassy in the Syrian capital Damascus on April 1, which killed two IRGC generals, Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Zahedi and General Mohammad Hadi Haji Rahimi, as well as five of their accompanying officers.

In retaliation, the IRGC targeted the Occupied Territories on April 13 with a barrage of drones and missiles. The retaliatory strikes, dubbed Operation True Promise, inflicted damage on Israeli military bases across the occupied Palestinian territories.

In another act of self-defense and in retaliation for Israel's assassinations of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, and IRGC general Abbas Nilforoushan, Iran carried out Operation True Promise 2, launching about 200 ballistic missiles at targets in Israel on October 1.

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