Ayatollah Khamenei noted in the Friday prayer: Iran’s missile response was the mildest response for the Zionist regime.

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, led the Friday prayer for the first time in four years, an event regarded by many analysts as one of his most anticipated interventions. The last time Ayatollah Khamenei presided over this ceremony was in 2020, following the assassination of Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani.

Regarding Palestine, Ayatollah Khamenei affirmed that “the Palestinian people have the right to resist,” adding that no entity or international organization has the right to reproach the Palestinian people for confronting the usurping Zionist regime. “No one, under any international law, has the right to criticize the Lebanese people or Hezbollah for supporting Gaza and the resistance of the Palestinian people; it is their duty to do so. This is both an Islamic mandate and a rational principle, as well as an international and global logic,” the Iranian Revolutionary Leader emphasized.

Finally, regarding Operation “True Promise II,” which represented the Islamic Republic’s response to the assassinations of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, Hassan Nasrallah, and IRGC General Seyyed Abbas Nilforoushan, Ayatollah Khamenei highlighted that “the brilliant actions of our armed forces in recent days were completely legal and legitimate.”
Furthermore, he noted that the Iranian response was the “mildest for the Zionist regime,” which can be interpreted as a direct warning to Israel that if it decides to respond militarily, Iran will escalate its response.