Iran: Israel will not be spared

 

TT-AFP

 

Published 14:54

  

A poster of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed at the start of the war, hangs on a building in Tehran. Photo: Vahid Salemi /AP/TT

Iran has threatened to attack Israel if the US continues its attacks on the country. The statement comes amid rising tensions between the countries.

“As we have already announced, any attack on infrastructure will be responded to, and the criminal Zionist regime responsible for these atrocities will not escape the response of our warriors,” Mohammad Bagher Zolghadr, head of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, said on state TV.

The war in the Persian Gulf has escalated again after the US carried out several attacks on Iran earlier this week. They were said to have targeted military targets – boats and air defenses – belonging to Iran’s powerful Revolutionary Guard. The attacks were in retaliation for attacks on three merchant ships in the Strait of Hormuz earlier this week.