Khamenei: Iran will prevail, Tehran has plan for more strikes

Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamene,i said on Tuesday that the Islamic Republic would emerge victorious from its confrontation with Israel and signaled that more retaliatory strikes were planned.

“God will surely grant victory to the Iranian people, to truth and to justice,” he said in a televised address, according to his press office. “Iran’s response has weakened the Zionist entity, and Tehran has a plan for further retaliatory strikes.”

Khamenei said Iran’s armed forces were fully prepared. “We will not forget the blood of our martyrs. We will not forgive the violation of our airspace. The Iranian nation will never surrender,” he said.

He also warned the United States against intervening in the conflict, saying, “Any U.S. military action will undoubtedly inflict irreparable damage.”

His remarks came after former U.S. President Donald Trump demanded Iran’s “immediate surrender,” which Tehran’s press office dismissed as “absurd.”