Fri 13 June 2025:
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei vowed to take vengeance against Israel after Iran was hit by strikes targeting its nuclear facilities and long-range missile capabilities Friday.
“The Zionist regime has committed a crime in our dear country today at dawn with its satanic, bloodstained hands,” Khamenei said on X, saying that Israel “has revealed its malicious nature even more than before by targeting residential areas.”
In response to their attacks, Khamenei said the “regime should anticipate a severe punishment.”
“By God’s grace, the powerful arm of the Islamic Republic’s Armed Forces won’t let them go unpunished,” he said.
Several senior Iranian military commanders and veteran nuclear scientists were assassinated in large-scale Israeli airstrikes that targeted Tehran and other cities across Iran in the early hours of Friday, according to Iranian state media.
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Iran issues government statement condemning Israeli strikes, outlines next steps
The Iranian government on Friday said it has initiated “defensive, political, and legal” measures following overnight Israeli airstrikes that targeted sites in Tehran and killed several individuals, including senior military and nuclear figures.
“The Islamic Republic of Iran has begun the necessary defensive, political, and legal measures to make the illegitimate Israel regret its actions,” the government said in a statement.
It described the strikes as “a violation of national sovereignty” and accused Israel of acting “outside all international norms.”
Iran said the attacks, which came amid diplomatic engagement over Tehran’s nuclear program, revealed “the regime’s fear of Iran’s ability to defend and convince the world.”
While reiterating that Iran has not initiated war in over two centuries, the statement asserted: “We consider retaliation and defense to be our legitimate right.”
It added that Israel’s actions had erased any distinction between the Iranian government and its people in Tel Aviv’s targeting, and that the response would be united.
Iran called on the United Nations Security Council to respond, but noted it would not “wait on international bodies.”
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