Addressing a gathering of worshippers here in Tehran on Friday, Ayatollah Khatami said Iran has never started, nor will start, a war against others.
The cleric warned the Zionist regime that if it takes a new act of aggression against Iran, the Islamic Republic will bring that regime to ruin.
He cautioned that Tel Aviv will turn into the “city of ghosts” if the Israeli regime dares to attack Iran again.
Ayatollah Khatami also noted that the Western liberal democracy was disgraced during the 12-day war of aggression against Iran and also after the massacre of starving Palestinian women and children in Gaza.
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.