Ayatolla Seyed Mojtaba Khamenei, the new Supreme Leader of Iran, issued his first public statement on March 12, vowing that Iran would not abandon its quest for vengeance against those responsible for the U.S.-Israeli strikes on the country.
“We will not forgo taking vengeance for the blood of your martyrs,” the new Leader declared, adding that this goes beyond his father’s death to every Iranian killed by the nation’s enemies, singling out a strike on a school in Minab as a particular grievance.
