A billboard in Enghelab Square, Tehran, on Saturday. The Persian reads: ‘If you want war, we are the master of war’ and the Hebrew: ‘Israel must be wiped from the face of the earth and this is the beginning of the story.’
Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has made his first public comments since Israeli warplanes attacked military targets in Iran early on Saturday.
He said “The evil committed by the Zionist regime (Israel) on Iran this weekend “should not be exaggerated nor downplayed,” though he stopped short of calling for retaliation.
He described the Israeli airstrikes as “malignant”. He says it 'would be wrong to say Israeli attack did not matter'
“The calculation error of the Zionist regime must be disrupted. They do not know Iran, its youth, its nation.
They have not yet been able to fully comprehend the power, capabilities, initiative and will of the Iranian nation, we must make them understand it,” Al Jazeera quoted the Iranian supreme leader – the ultimate authority in Iran – as saying.
“It would be wrong for us to say that it was nothing and it did not matter,” Khamenei said, adding that Israel has tried to exaggerate the impact of the airstrikes.
