Iran army has announced that it will avenge the martyrdom of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei۔The statement issued by the Iranian army said that the attack on the country’s leadership is a serious act and will be responded to in a full and decisive manner, and the aggressor will be punished in any case.The statement said that every possible measure will be taken to defend the country’s sovereignty and security and the enemy will have to pay the price for this act.

The Revolutionary Guards also made it clear that they will not miss the opportunity to give a severe, decisive and tragic punishment to the killers of the Supreme Leader.

It should be noted that Iranian state media confirmed the martyrdom of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei.

According to Iranian state media, Ayatollah Khamenei was martyred in the US and Israeli attacks on Saturday, and the Supreme Leader was martyred in his office.

A 7-day holiday and 40-day mourning were declared in Iran after the Supreme Leader’s martyrdom.

Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said on Saturday that “regime change” in the Islamic Republic of Iran is an “impossible mission.”

He made the remarks in an interview with American satellite broadcaster NBC News, hours after the Israeli regime and the United States launched another unprovoked war of aggression against the country.

The aggression came in the middle of indirect nuclear talks between Tehran and Washington, mediated by the Omani government, with Araghchi leading the Iranian side.

Iran’s top diplomat said the Islamic Republic is a “great nation with a magnificent civilization” that has endured for thousands of years.

“We know how to defend ourselves and we will survive,” he told the US news channel, adding that the moment the aggression stops, Iran will also stop defending itself.

The Israeli regime and the United States carried out fresh aggression against Iran early on Saturday, targeting multiple cities, including the capital, Tehran.

Many casualties are feared, most of them civilians, including children.

Iranian armed forces responded with coordinated retaliatory operations, targeting multiple military and intelligence sites in the occupied territories as well as US military bases scattered across the Persian Gulf region.

Iran had previously warned the Persian Gulf countries against allowing their soil to be used in any act of aggression against the country.

Araghchi said he had been in contact with his counterparts from the Persian Gulf countries and explained that Iran does not intend to attack them, rather, the attacks on US bases in the region are a “defensive measure.”

“We could not simply sit back and watch,” Iran’s foreign minister asserted.

He dismissed the rumors about the assassination of top Iranian government officials or military commanders, saying they are all “safe and alive.”

Araghchi also questioned the US rationale of engaging in diplomacy and then attacking in the middle of talks, especially when they had made “big progress” in the recent round of talks held in Geneva on Thursday.

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has condemned the massacre of dozens of innocent schoolgirls in an Israeli attack against an elementary school in the southern province of Hormozgan, stressing that the vicious crime will not go unanswered.

“The destroyed building is a primary school for girls in the south of Iran. It was bombed in broad daylight, when packed with young pupils,” he wrote on the social media platform X on Saturday evening, posting a photo of the bombed-out school.

He added, “Dozens of innocent children have been murdered at this site alone.”

The top Iranian diplomat pointed out that these crimes will not go unpunished.

Local officials said at least 82 schoolgirls lost their lives and 92 others were injured in the joint US-Israeli aggression against the Shajareye Tayyebeh School in Minab.

Minab’s governor, Mohammad Radmehr, said rescue and aid operations were underway at the school and that the security situation in the city was under control.

The attack on the school was part of the joint US-Israeli aggression against Iran, which began early on Saturday.

As in the June aggression, the offensive was launched amid diplomatic talks on Tehran’s nuclear program.

The Iranian armed forces launched massive missile strikes in retaliation, targeting the Israeli-occupied territories and American military bases across the region.

The Israeli-American aggression came in the middle of indirect nuclear talks between Tehran and Washington, mediated by the Omani government.

Earlier on Saturday, in an interview with NBC News, asserted that “regime change” in the Islamic Republic of Iran is an “impossible mission.”

Iran’s top diplomat said the Islamic Republic is a “great nation with a magnificent civilization” that has endured for thousands of years.

“We know how to defend ourselves and we will survive,” he told the US news channel, adding that the moment the aggression stops, Iran will also stop defending itself.