Hours after terrorist Trump threatens to kill more people if necessary, Ghalibaf warns that any new aggression would trigger an unpredictable response beyond geographical boundaries, as Iran's Army declares full combat readiness.

TEHRAN -- Iran's Parliament Speaker Muhammad Bagher Ghalibaf warned on Tuesday that any enemy miscalculation would trigger an "unpredictable" military and strategic response unconstrained by geographical boundaries, hours after U.S. President Donald Trump confirmed a fresh terrorist strike on Iranian territory and threatened further escalation.

Addressing an open session of Parliament, Ghalibaf said Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Mojtaba Khamenei had recently outlined to senior commanders the scope and scale of how the armed forces should respond to any new aggression.

"Accordingly, our military and strategic response to any enemy miscalculation will be unpredictable in a way that we will spell an end to their erroneous calculations and [destroy] all their material and non-material assets," Ghalibaf said.

He said the United States and its regional allies have learned from the two recent wars against Iran that "the era of excessive demands is over".

"We are at the highest level of defensive readiness on the military and operational fronts. If Washington once again makes a strategic miscalculation, it should know that this time, it will face a new battlefield and will find itself even more desperate than it is today in search of a way out."

Ghalibaf said Iran has delivered "a strong and rational" response to the United States through mediators regarding the Strait of Hormuz, which Tehran has closed in retaliation for American violations, and that "the ball is now in America's court to prevent a war."

He identified national cohesion as Iran's most important asset, describing it as both its strongest weapon and its most effective means of deterrence.

Trump escalated his criminal threats on Tuesday, claiming in a Fox News interview that the United States had struck an Iranian air defense facility overnight—an attack he dismissed as a "small-scale attack, not a war"—while boasting that Washington "completely controls" the Strait of Hormuz, a claim contradicted by Iran's closure of the waterway.

"Look, I'm not looking to kill lots of people, but if we have to, we'll have to," he said, claiming "we have them totally where we want," without providing evidence.

The remarks capped three days of escalating threats. At a rally in Iowa on Sunday, Trump declared: "The only reason why I'm not finished with Iran is I want to be nice... But at some point, we're going to have to give them the hammer." On Monday, he said the United States could strike Iran's Kuh-e Kolang mountain "in one hour."

Brigadier General Alireza Sheikh, executive deputy of the Iranian Army, said the Air Force's capacities are preserved and combat-ready, vowing that the armed forces keep "fingers on the trigger" to respond to any level of enemy threat.

He said Iranian pilots had neutralized advanced enemy radar networks and strategic assets during recent wars, proving that "technological asymmetry can be overcome with creative and fearless strategy."

The remarks served as a direct rebuke to Trump's repeated claims that Iran's military capabilities had been "annihilated," including his declaration that "Iran's Navy is gone, their Air Force is gone."

Sheikh said: "We, military personnel, never analyze threats politically. Our duty as military personnel is to be ready for defense. The Army of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Armed Forces are 100% ready to respond to the enemy at any level of threat, and are now fingers on the trigger, ready to fulfill our duty."