Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, says Israel’s air strikes on the country on Friday night should “neither be downplayed nor exaggerated.”
The Iranian army says four soldiers were killed in the strikes which the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said were “precise strikes on military targets.”
Khamenei said that Israel made a “miscalculation” about Iran, which Tehran must “correct,” the official IRNA news agency reported.
“They do not know Iran” and “they have not yet correctly understood the power, capability, initiative and will of the Iranian nation. We must make them understand,” he added.
Iranian Foreign Minister Syed Abbas Araghchi has said in a letter to the UN Secretary General that Iran reserves the right to respond to Israel’s “criminal aggression”.
The Iranian foreign ministry says he wrote to Antonio Guterres calling for a meeting of the Security Council with the intention of condemning recent Israeli strikes on Iran.
