Addressing a commemorative service held in remembrance of Iranian martyrs on Wednesday, Qalibaf stressed that Iran will stand against any act of aggression and won’t allow a fraction of its soil to be taken away.
“We will respond to any act of aggression. We have always faced aggression and attacks, but it is we who have delivered the ultimate, crushing response,” he said.
Highlighting the serious damages that Iran did to the Zionist regime in its retaliatory strikes on the Israeli targets, Qalibaf said the Zionist regime cannot survive for a couple of days unaided.
The Western supports revived the Israeli regime in its war against Iran, he added.
Qalibaf said the Israeli regime, which got the US directly involved in the military aggression against Iran, received crushing responses and called for a ceasefire when it could not bear the Islamic Republic’s heavy counterattacks.
While the Zionist regime waged a war of aggression against Iran on June 13 and struck Iran’s military, nuclear and residential areas for 12 days, the US stepped in and conducted military attacks on three nuclear sites in Iran’s Natanz, Fordow and Isfahan on June 22.
The Iranian military forces conducted powerful counterattacks immediately after the aggression. The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps Aerospace Force carried out 22 waves of retaliatory missile strikes against the Zionist regime as part of Operation True Promise III that inflicted heavy losses on cities across the occupied territories.
Also, in response to the US attacks, Iranian armed forces launched a wave of missiles at al-Udeid air base in Qatar, the largest American military base in West Asia.
A ceasefire that came into force on June 24 brought the fighting to a halt.