Iranian officials continue to make defiant statements in the aftermath of the Israeli strikes of Oct. 25. Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said Iran “stands resolute in defending its people and will show an appropriate response to the Zionist regime for its recent act of aggression,” reported Tasnim. “We do not seek war, but we will defend our country and the rights of our people. We will give a proportionate response to the aggression by the Zionist regime,” he said at a cabinet meeting on Oct. 27.
Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps Major Gen. Hossein Salami warned Israel to await the “bitter and unimaginable consequences” of its recent act of aggression that took the lives of four Iranian Army soldiers. The IRGC chief said that the “illegitimate and unlawful” attack by the Israeli regime, which was repelled, thanks to the Iranian Air Defense’s preparedness, revealed the Zionist regime’s “miscalculation and its frustration in the battlefield in the war against the combatants of the great front of Islamic resistance, especially in Gaza and Lebanon.”