No security as long as US keeps military bases in region: Qalibaf

Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf has warned regional countries that they will experience persistent insecurity as long as they host American military bases.

“As long as American bases are in the region, countries will not experience security,” Qalibaf posted on X on Saturday.

“The defense policies of the Islamic Republic of Iran are consistent, based on the guidelines of our martyred Imam,” he added.

The US and the Israeli regime launched a joint military assault on Iran on February 28, assassinating Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei and several senior military commanders.

Since then, they have attacked military sites and civilian infrastructure, including schools and hospitals, in terror strikes across the nation, killing more than 1,200 people.

Iranian armed forces have launched waves of retaliatory missile and drone strikes against US military bases in regional countries that Washington has used to launch attacks against the Islamic Republic.

Iran conducted no attack on neighbors, respects their sovereignty, interests: Army headquarters

Iran’s Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters says Iranian Armed Forces respect the national interests and sovereignty of neighboring countries.

Authorities in Tehran have said Iran’s retaliatory attacks have only targeted US and Israeli assets in the region and that the Islamic Republic respects the sovereignty of neighboring countries.

Spokesperson for the Khatam al-Anbiya headquarters Lieutenant Colonel Ibrahim Zolfaghari reiterated on Saturday that any location or site from which an act of aggression is launched against Iran will be “a legitimate target.”

Zolfaghari added that countries that have not allowed their airspace or facilities to be used by the US or the Israeli regime have not been, and will not be, targeted.

However, he added that “all bases identified as the origin of aggression against Iran will continue to face heavy strikes on land, sea, and air.”

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