Iran will respond to any new attack on its infrastructure, including by attacking Israel, the head of the country’s highest security body warned on Friday, as hostilities resumed this week between Tehran and Washington.
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“We will respond to any attack on infrastructure, and the criminal Zionist regime… will not be spared,” said the head of the Supreme National Security Council, Mohammad Bagher Zolghadr, in a statement published by state television.
Hostilities resumed this week between the two enemy countries who exchanged strikes in the Middle East, the most significant since their signing on June 17 of a memorandum of understanding to ratify the April ceasefire.
During the night from Wednesday to Thursday, the United States massively struck Iran, targeting around 90 military targets according to the army.
But the Islamic Republic accused Washington of having also targeted civilian infrastructure in order to prevent the faithful from going to the funeral of the former supreme leader.
Thus, bridges and the railway link between Tehran and Mashhad, where Ali Khamenei was buried, were affected, according to Tehran.
The Israeli Prime Minister’s office announced for its part that Benjamin Netanyahu had spoken Thursday evening with American President Donald Trump, who informed him of the “latest movements” American in the Gulf.
Ali Khamenei was killed in a US-Israeli strike at the end of February at the very start of the war in the Middle East.
