Pezeshkian warns aggressors: Iran won’t launch preemptive attacks, but will retaliate strongly

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has warned that Tehran will respond forcefully to any attacks targeting its infrastructure or economic centers, while reiterating that Iran does not initiate preemptive strikes.

In a post on X on Saturday, Pezeshkian said, “We have said many times that Iran doesn’t carry out preemptive attacks, but we will retaliate strongly if our infrastructure or economic centers are targeted.”

Addressing regional countries, he urged them not to allow the enemies to use their territory for assaults against Iran, saying, “If you want development and security, don’t let our enemies run the war from your lands.”

The US-Israeli aerial assaults on Friday targeted the central Iranian province of Isfahan’s Mobarakeh Steel Company and the Khouzestan Steel Company in the country’s southwest.

Iran vows to exact 'heavy price' for Israeli attacks on civilian infrastructure

Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi pledges that Iran will be exacting a "heavy price" for the Israeli regime

In addition, the regime struck the Khondab Nuclear Complex in the west-central Iranian city of Arak, as well as a yellowcake production facility in the city of Ardakan in the country’s central areas.

Prior to the strikes, the regime had also targeted the Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant in southern Iran.

In response, Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi pledged that Iran will be exacting a “heavy price” for the Israeli regime’s attacks on the Islamic Republic’s civilian infrastructure.

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