Iranian state media,<\/a> suggested Washington is publicly signaling wanting to negotiate but is privately preparing for a possible ground attack.<\/p>\n\u201cOur enemy speaks publicly of negotiations while secretly planning a ground attack, without realizing our forces are waiting for the Americans to enter,\u201d Ghalibaf said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are in a major world war and must prepare ourselves for a long, difficult, and complex path,\u201d Ghalibaf said.<\/p>\n
Ynet reported that he emphasized Iran\u2019s military posture and declared that its missile operations would not end.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur launches continue, our missiles will not stop, and our determination has only grown stronger,\u201d he warned.Ghalibaf, a 64-year-old hardliner, is reportedly among a small group of leaders consolidating power in the new regime.<\/p>\n
He pointed to Iran-backed groups across the region as important parts of Iran’s campaign.<\/p>\n
Hezbollah in Lebanon, he said, has become \u201can important and effective part of the resistance,\u201d while allied forces in Iraq are \u201cfighting bravely.\u201d<\/p>\n
He also claimed that the Houthis in Yemen have \u201cbreathed new life\u201d into the campaign.<\/p>\n
Ghalibaf also said Iran would not exit the war without asserting its strength.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe will not allow our enemies to leave without demonstrating our power and turning this war into a lesson for any aggressor,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Fox News’ Emma Bussey contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"6 hours agoIran says it’s fighting ‘major world war,’ warns enemies won’t escape without a lesson Iran is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":366148,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[220,903,85,46,630,225,43,126],"class_list":["post-366147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-breaking-news","tag-current-news","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-latest-news","tag-national-news","tag-news","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=366147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/366148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}