Iran’s “Supreme Leader” Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warned his subordinates at a meeting on Wednesday that any “non-strategic retreat” would incur Allah’s “divine wrath” as the world loudly predicts an attack by Tehran on neighboring Israel.
Iranian officials have boasted that they will attack Israel throughout August after removing Hamas’ “political” leader, Ismail Haniyeh, on July 31. Haniyeh died in a mysterious explosion at his hotel while in Tehran to attend the inauguration of President Massoud Pezeshkian. Iran is believed to be one of the main funders and political backers of Hamas, the genocidal terrorist organization that massacred, tortured and abducted hundreds of Israeli civilians in an unprecedented siege on October 7.
No party has claimed responsibility for the explosion that killed Haniya, including the Israeli government, which has not commented on the incident. The government of left-wing US President Joe Biden has denied taking part in the attack or having any prior knowledge that it would occur.
However, the promised revenge had yet to be delivered at the time of writing, and by Friday top Iranian diplomats call He called for a “full diplomatic effort” to thwart Israel’s defensive operations against Hamas, taking a much more cautious stance than the country’s dictator.
Khamenei made the remarks on Wednesday when he met with legislative officials for an event commemorating “the martyrs of Koghiryeh and Boyer Ahmad provinces.”
“Since the victory of the revolution, our enemies have used various means to instill fear in our country, suggesting that we should fear the United States, Britain and the Zionists,” Khamenei told parliament, according to an English translation of his remarks in an official speech. Website.
“Our country has realized that relying on its own strength it can accomplish great things and that the forces of our enemies are not as great as they appear,” he argued.
Khamenei warned that any “withdrawal” from Israel would be condemned by the Quran.
“As enshrined in the Quran, any non-tactical withdrawal, whether in the military, political or economic sphere, will invite the wrath of God,” he said.
In other remarks, Khamenei claimed the US and Israel were waging “psychological warfare” against the Iranian people to incite “feelings of weakness, isolation and submission to the enemy’s demands.”
“He said that governments, whether big or small, that are currently bowing to the demands of arrogant powers, [the West and Israel]”They could avoid submission if they had relied on their people and capabilities, and recognized the true strength of their enemies without exaggeration,” Khamenei’s website summarizes. “Khamenei stressed the grave consequences of amplifying cultural practices spread by enemies, warning that such narratives could lead to a sense of passivity and make people infatuated with the enemy’s culture and disparage their own.”
Khamenei first threaten Following Haniya’s death, the Iranian government condemned the grave attack on Israel and said it was its “duty” to inflict “severe punishment” on Israel on the day of the incident. Tehran has said the attack was the responsibility of the Israeli government, with the backing of the US, but has not presented any evidence to support its claims.
While Israel has been preparing to attack it for two weeks now, Iran has yet to carry out its threats, and Tehran has spent much of this week decrying the idea of stopping its consistent threats to kill Israelis, insisting that Iran has a sovereign right to attack Israel over Haniya’s death despite not providing any evidence of Israeli involvement.
Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Bagheri Kani said on Friday that Iran will continue to pursue all “practical measures” to end Israel’s defensive operations against its ally Hamas. Bagheri reportedly made the remarks during a meeting with Qatar’s Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al-Thani.
“We stressed the need to continue all-out efforts and practical measures, including diplomatic actions, to stop the Zionist genocide in Gaza,” Bagheri Kani said in a social media statement on Friday.
Iran’s foreign minister was reportedly in contact with Qatari officials following the start of ceasefire talks hosted by Doha and reportedly partly brokered by the U.S. Israel has a representative at the talks, but Hamas does not, leaving little room for progress in addressing the murderous jihadist attacks that have sparked Israeli operations in Gaza that Iran wants to end.
Though not officially invited, the opposition media outlet Iran International Reported Iran’s Islamic regime is “indirectly involved” in the negotiations with Qatar, it said on Friday, pointing to the phone call between Al-Thani and Bagheri. It suggested that Iran was trying to address “fears of escalating an unwinnable war” both in the talks with Qatar and in Khamenei’s warning that “God’s wrath” would befall Iranian authorities if they weakened their resolve to attack Israel.
