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Iran’s acting foreign minister says ‘big red line’ crossed by Israel

Ali Bagheri Kani has told his Pakistani counterpart in a phone call that Tehran will respond to the assassination of Haniyeh, which he described as “the Zionist regime crossing a big red line of the Islamic Republic of Iran” with two major repercussions.

“First is Iran’s decisive response to this crime, and the other is the effect of the malign actions of the Zionists in disturbing stability and security and creating crises across the region,” he is quoted as saying by the Iranian Foreign Ministry.

 

Iran to teach Israel, US ‘historical lesson’: Parliament speaker

Iran’s parliament speaker, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, has demanded “a deterrent response and revenge for the blood of Hamas’s political chief Ismail Haniyeh”, according to our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic.

“Tehran has not left any attack on its territory unanswered and will not do so in the future,” Ghalibaf was quoted as saying. “Our armed forces will teach the Zionist entity and its main supporter, the United States, a historical lesson.”

Iran’s IRNA state news agency also reported that Ghalibaf, speaking during a parliament session, said: “We do not doubt that the people and resistance forces and freedom seekers of the world will be happy with Iran’s smart and crushing response, and the Zionist regime, especially its supporter, the United States, will be forced to regret it.”