Op-Ed

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi says the Pentagon is lying about the financial toll of the war on Iran, noting that the aggression has directly cost the United States $100 billion so far—four times the official estimate.

The mainstream Western media have actively facilitated and justified the Zionist regime’s genocide in Gaza, says Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei.

The Leader of the Islamic Revolution has vowed that the Iranian nation will defeat the enemy in the cultural and economic spheres as well, following the victory on the military battlefield.

A top IRGC commander says Iran will respond to any enemy aggression with prolonged and painful blows, adding that American naval vessels will share the fate of US military bases in the region.

Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf has ridiculed the US naval blockade against Iran, pointing out that the country’s vast borders make any attempt at sealing it off impossible.

The foreign ministers of Jordan, Spain, Pakistan, Brazil, Bangladesh, Türkiye, South Africa, Colombia, Libya, Maldives, and Malaysia have condemned Israel’s attack on the “Global Sumud Flotilla” for the Gaza Strip.

The Hamas Movement has strongly denounced the terrorist attack carried out by the Israeli occupation navy against “Global Sumud Flotilla” boats heading for the besieged Gaza Strip, while they were in international waters near the Greek island of Crete.

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Mojtaba Khamenei has said Islamic Republic of Iran will determine new legal rules in the Strait of Hormuz and Persian Gulf, putting an end to the enemy’s abuses of the strait.

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Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian says any attempt to impose naval restrictions and blockade contravenes international regulations and poses a threat to the interests of regional nations and global peace and stability and is doomed to fail.

Former Palestinian prisoner Nael Barghouthi has urged the world’s parliaments to boycott members of Israel’s Knesset who approved a death penalty law authorizing the execution of Palestinian prisoners.