Ayatollah Ali Khamenei issued the warning on Saturday after Israel struck Iran last week, killing at least five people.
Iran’s supreme leader has threatened to inflict a “crushing response” on the U.S. and Israel over attacks on Iran and its allies.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei issued the warning on Saturday as Iranian officials are increasingly threatening to launch another strike against Israel after its attack on the Islamic Republic last week that targeted military bases and killed at least five people.
“The enemies, whether the Zionist regime or the United States of America, will definitely receive a crushing response to what they are doing to Iran and the Iranian nation and to the resistance front”, said Khamenei, 85, according to The Associated Press. He did not elaborate on the timing of the threatened attack or the scope.
Khamenei had previously struck a more cautious approach, saying officials would weigh Iran’s response and that Israel’s attack “should not be exaggerated nor downplayed.” Iran has launched two major direct attacks on Israel in April and October.
General Mohammad Ali Naini, a spokesman for Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard that controls the ballistic missiles needed to target Israel, also warned that Iran’s response would be “wise, powerful and beyond the enemy’s comprehension.
