THERAN - Iran’s Parliament speaker Muhammad Baqer Ghalibaf vows that the Islamic Republic will not let the blood of the martyred Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei and other martyrs of unprovoked American-Israeli aggression against the nation “go unavenged.”
The top legislator made the remarks on Tuesday, honoring the memories of the 168 victims, mostly comprising schoolchildren, who were fatally targeted at a school in the southern Iranian city of Minab in the opening airstrikes of the February 28-April 7 aggression.
He pledged that, under the guidance of Ayatollah Khamenei’s son and successor, Ayatollah Seyyed Mojtaba Khamenei, the Islamic Republic will “devote all its capabilities to securing the rights of the Iranian people, ending the aggression, punishing the aggressor, and upholding the country’s honor and standing.”
“We will not allow the enemy to target our national unity, the popular participation [in support of the Islamic Republic], the nation’s resilience, or the motivation of our officials,” he added.
The official expressed certainty that, benefiting from the directions provided by Ayatollah Khamenei, the nation will emerge triumphant from this historic test and be granted divine victory.
He said that the enemy accepted the understanding “out of desperation to end the war,” he added, noting how Iran’s decisive and successful retaliation against the aggression forced Washington to announce a unilateral ceasefire on April 7 and then agree to the understanding.
Ghalibaf described subsequent violations by the U.S. of the understanding as its efforts at “compensating for its heavy political defeat.”