‘Unfathomable response’:
Top military brass warns of payback to anti-Iran threats
Iran’s top military commanders on Monday warned the country’s enemies of a “crushing and regrettable response beyond imagination” to any threat.
Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces, Major General Abdolrahim Mousavi, said that the country’s Armed Forces are ready to confront any threats with a timely, decisive response beyond imagination.
In a message to commemorate the Sacred Defense Week, which marks the anniversary of an eight-year imposed war on Iran by Iraq’s Ba’ath regime in the 1980s.
"We assure the noble and heroic Iranian nation that the Armed Forces are prepared to give a timely, decisive, regret-inducing, and unfathomable response to any threats by global bullying [powers] and oppressors through relying on [own devised] strategic surprises,” Mousavi said.
In the face of threats, Iran will not remain passive and will turn every threat into an opportunity to display its power in the regional and international scene, he added.
Pointing to Israel-US acts of aggression against Iran in June, he emphasized that the enemy failed to achieve its objectives during the 12-day war, thanks to the Islamic Republic’s military and defensive power and its regional capabilities, as well as the strong and proportional response of the Armed Forces.
In mid-June, Israel unleashed war on Iran, assassinating high-ranking military commanders, scientists, and civilians. Iran responded decisively by launching waves of ballistic and hypersonic missiles at sensitive Israeli targets in Tel Aviv, Haifa, and other occupied cities.
Once the United States joined the Israeli aggression by striking Iran’s nuclear facilities, the American air base of Al Udeid in Qatar was targeted by the Iranian Armed Forces.
The White House then proposed a cease-fire, which Israel accepted.
Iran ‘will not compromise’ on national interests
Meanwhile, Iranian Army’s chief Major General Amir Hatami and Chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Major General Mohammad Pakpour in a meeting on the occasion of the Sacred Defense Week vowed that any act of aggression will be met with “a unified, swift, intelligent, and powerful response.”
Hatami highlighted the critical strategic alliance between the Army and the IRGC, describing their unity as “the solid pillar of national security” and “an iron shield” against conspiracies.
He also pointed to the recent “12-day imposed war” as proof that Iran “will not compromise on our national interests,” vowing that the armed forces would “continue the path of the martyrs with authority.”
Addressing the enemies of the Iranian nation, Hatami declared that any further miscalculation would bring a “firm and regretful response.”
Major General Pakpour, for his part, stated that the events of the recent US-Israeli aggression strongly recalled the national unity and revolutionary spirit seen at the outset of the Iran-Iraq War, emphasizing that the same “exemplary cohesion” witnessed during the eight-year Sacred Defense was again evident throughout the country.