Iran’s new supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei, who is yet to appear in public, has vowed to avenge the deaths since the start of the war with the U.S. and Israel.
“A limited amount of this revenge has so far taken concrete form, but until it is fully achieved, this case will remain among our priorities,” Khamenei, said according to the statement.
“We will seek compensation from the enemy, and if they refuse, we will take as much of their property as we determine, and if that is not possible, we will destroy the same amount of his property,” he added.
It was his first statement since he was proclaimed as the Islamic Republic’s new supreme leader after the killing of his father and predecessor in U.S. and Israeli strikes. In his statement, Khamenei called for the closure of U.S. bases across the region, saying “the claim of establishing security and peace by America was nothing more than a lie.”
The new leader also thanked Iran’s allies in the region, including Lebanon’s Hezbollah, Yemen’s Houthis and armed groups in Iraq.
“We consider the countries of the Resistance Front our best friends, and the cause of resistance and the Resistance Front are an inseparable part of the values of the Islamic Revolution,” he said.
