Tehran issues stern warning against any attack on Iranian soil

Raeisi raised the alarm in a meeting with Pakistan’s cultural and academic elites in the Government College University (GCU) of Lahore in the central province of Punjab on Tuesday.

He pointed to Iran’s retaliatory strikes on the Israeli-occupied territories on April 13 in response to the regime’s earlier aggression on its diplomatic compound in Syria.

Stressing that Iran had punished Israel for its attack on the Islamic Republic’s consulate building in Damascus, which was against all international laws, conventions and the United Nations Charter, Raeisi said, “If the Zionist regime commits another mistake and launches an aggression on Iran’s soil, the situation will be different and it is not clear what will remain of this regime.”

In the multi-pronged Operation True Promise, Iran launched late on April 13 hundreds of drones and missiles at the occupied territories in response to the regime's aggression on the consular section of the Islamic Republic of Iran’s Embassy in the Mezzeh neighborhood of the Syrian capital on April 1.

The Israeli airstrikes on Iran’s embassy compound in Damascus had killed two generals of the Quds Force of IRGC, Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Zahedi and General Mohammad Hadi Haji Rahimi, as well as five of their accompanying officers.

Pointing to Washington’s unwavering support for Israel’s months-long war on the besieged Gaza Strip, the Iranian president said, “The American and western support of killing and wounding more than 100,000 Palestinians in Gaza attests to the fact that, today, the biggest violators of human rights are Americans and Westerners, and their advocacy for human rights is absurd.”

Raeisi described Palestine as the prime issue of the Muslim world as well as mankind, and underlined that the Palestinian resistance will finally succeed in liberating Palestine, Gaza and the occupied al-Quds.