Iran’s supreme leader vows ‘teeth-breaking’ response to Israel and US after strikes on military sites


Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has promised a “teeth-breaking” response to Israel and the United States after Israel targeted Iranian military sites in retaliatory strikes late last month.

“The enemies, both the US and the Zionist regime (Israel), should know that they will definitely receive a teeth-breaking response for what they are doing against Iran and the resistance front,” said Khamenei, referring to Iran-allied militant groups including Hamas and Hezbollah.

He was speaking during a meeting with students on Saturday, ahead of the anniversary of the 1979 seizure of the US embassy in Tehran, Iran’s state-run Press TV reported.

“We are certainly doing everything necessary to prepare the Iranian nation to stand against arrogance, whether in terms of military readiness, armaments, or political actions, and thank God, our officials are currently engaged in this,” he added.

Iran and Israel have long been enemies, a rivalry that deepened following Hamas’ attacks of October 7 last year and the subsequent Israeli invasion of Gaza. Israel has been battling Hezbollah in southern Lebanon, and overnight at least 19 people were injured in the central Israeli city of Tira after projectiles were launched over the border.

Khamenei’s remarks come a week after Israel’s latest round of strikes on Iran in response to the Islamic Republic’s October 1 missile attack on the Jewish state, which itself was a response to the Israeli killing of leaders from Hamas and Hezbollah.

For the first time, Israeli officials admitted hitting targets on Iranian soil in a significant escalation of tensions, although Israel stopped short of hitting Iranian energy or nuclear facilities.

Iran has been mulling its response to Israel’s strikes, with a high-ranking source telling CNN on Wednesday that they will be met with a “definitive and painful” retaliation that will likely come before the US presidential vote.

Khamenei’s remarks on Saturday signal a departure from Iran’s initial attempts to downplay the severity of the strikes carried out by Israel on October 25.

Following the strikes, Khamenei took a more measured tone, saying the attacks should “neither be exaggerated nor downplayed.”

An Israeli military source on Thursday said the country is at a “high level of readiness” for a response from Iran. But the source told CNN that they are “still assessing the decision-making process in Iran” to determine if and when a retaliation will take place.

White House spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre on Wednesday said Iran should not respond to Israel’s strikes on its territory, adding that “if Iran does choose to respond, however, the US will be standing by to assist Israel in its defense.”

Also this week, Iran said it could increase the range of its missiles, according to a report in state-run media. “If the Islamic Republic of Iran faces an existential threat, we will inevitably change the policy of our military doctrine,” the head of Iran’s Strategic Council on Foreign Relations, Kamal Kharrazi, told Lebanon’s al-Mayadeen TV on Friday, per Press TV.

He also said Iran is capable of producing nuclear weapons but remains curbed by a mandate by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei against weapons of mass destruction, Press TV reported.

CountinBlessins:
Dude talks too much. Shut the hell up and take the L.

Even Russia and China backing you do not want to fight the USA.

It's only these genz drug addicts on this website that play too much call of duty that think otherwise.

Reality is not a video game. The USA and animals and bullies but the reality is that they are damned too powerful.

Why do you think terrorism exists ? It is the fight the USA hidden not openly.

In open warfare their will beat anyone and this is the unfortunate truth that makes rogue nations like Israel feel superior.
This is why Russia forms alliances everywhere. They know they can't beat the USA one on one

BossOluwendy:
Hmmm… relying on propaganda and trying to look tough to their proxies.
I just laugh at some people when they insinuate that Russia will attack the USA no, Russia will never and never attack the USA directly. Lenin couldn’t do it, Stalin couldn’t do it and even Nikita Krushchev in the mad days of the USSR dared not attack the USA so not now with the ailing economy of the Russian Federation would Putin dare attack the US.
God bless the USA !

CoronaVirusPro:



Fvck Israel!

madone:
israel is already planning how to kill this one.

SlavaUkraini:


No

Fûck you Morafúcker..

Fúck Ayatollah Ali Khamenei...

Fúck Iran.....

Fúck Hamas....

Fûck Hezbollah....

Fúck all Terrorist sympathizer in Nairaland.

Very soon, y'all will meet your 72 Ashawos in Hell.

Marieh11j:
The US and Israel are the real terrorists in the world

Difrent:


But they don't win all the time now. They failed woefully in
Vietnam
Afghanistan
So who knows , maybe Iran

Whytelyon:


They failed in Afghanistan? Failed in Vietnam? Afghanistan=> Trump ordered them to leave and stop anything in that region.
Vietnam => UN ordered to stop the shooting and anything that looked like war, US pulled out in 1973, North Vietnam attacked south in 1975, before US could come back to help they took over (north Vietnam forces), US took many Vietnam peeps to the US to treat them and co. You day talk this one? How do you think there are many Viet Americans in the US today ?

Stop mixing opium with Codine and sulphur, you no go hear. That thing is having serious adverse effects on your body system. See the Kain nonsense you day type here. So if president of the US orders his soldiers to leave the peace keeping and. Come back home and opposition attacks again, the US lost the war? Ehn. Na wa o. No Kain nonsense I no go hear.

CoronaVirusPro:


Who da fvck told you to compose a poem?

Fvck you!