The path to absolute deterrence lies in an “even more powerful Iran,” Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei said on Wednesday, in a message marking the “National Day of Fighting Global Arrogance.”
Khamenei warned that Iran’s response to any renewed US aggression would be on a much greater scale, adding that Tehran’s destruction of US bases in the region and its management of the Strait of Hormuz had been part of a campaign against US hegemony.
“The US sees the end of its hegemony as distant; we see it as near,” he said.
Iranian Supreme National Security Council Secretary Mohsen Rezaei, who recently received a letter from US Vice President JD Vance, wrote on Tuesday on X/Twitter that “the United States’ response regarding Iran’s rights and demands was not convincing.”
Rezaei stressed that Washington must provide a full and explicit response to Iran’s seven conditions. Only then, he said, would “the Strait of Hormuz be opened.”
Amichai Stein and Jerusalem Post Staff contributed to this report.