{"id":42203,"date":"2024-04-16T10:15:16","date_gmt":"2024-04-16T10:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=42203"},"modified":"2024-04-16T10:15:18","modified_gmt":"2024-04-16T10:15:18","slug":"senior-figures-in-iran-continue-to-warn-israel-against-retaliation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2024\/04\/16\/senior-figures-in-iran-continue-to-warn-israel-against-retaliation\/","title":{"rendered":"Senior figures in Iran continue to warn Israel against retaliation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A senior spokesperson for Iran\u2019s military has warned the US, UK, France and Germany to stop supporting\u00a0Israel, and said that there will be an even stronger response from Iran if Israel retaliates to the strikes at the weekend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The official state news agency IRNA reports that&nbsp;<strong>Brig Gen Abolfazl Shekarchi<\/strong>&nbsp;said:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We remind the heads of state of the United States, the United Kingdom, France, and Germany to stop supporting the declining child-killing terrorist regime of Israel. The Islamic Republic of Iran has proven that it is not a warmonger and does not seek to spread the war. The response will be stronger if the regime carries out more severe aggressive act.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Overnight a senior official briefed Al Jazeera that&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/iran\">Iran<\/a>&nbsp;had a broad range of options to use against Israel, and said that \u201cits bullying and madly taken behavior towards Iran will not work.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A diplomatic read-out of a call between Iran\u2019s president&nbsp;<strong>Ebrahim Raisi<\/strong>&nbsp;and Qatar\u2019s emir said that the Iranian leader had said \u201cWe now categorically declare that the smallest action against Iranian interests will certainly be met with a severe, widespread and painful response against all its perpetrators.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Al Jazeera also reports that on state TV in Iran, deputy foreign minister&nbsp;<strong>Ali Bagheri Kani<\/strong>&nbsp;said that his country would not wait 12 days to respond to another Israeli attack, but would retaliate in \u201ca matter of seconds.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Iran launched over 300 strikes against Israel at the weekend in response, it said, to the destruction of its consulate in Damascus on 1 April, which it blames on Israel. The vast majority of the launches failed to reach their targets or were taken down by Israel\u2019s air defence, aided by a coalition of partners including the UK and France.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A senior spokesperson for Iran\u2019s military has warned the US, UK, France and Germany to stop supporting\u00a0Israel, and said that there will be an even stronger response from Iran if Israel retaliates to the strikes at the weekend. The official state news agency IRNA reports that&nbsp;Brig Gen Abolfazl Shekarchi&nbsp;said: We remind the heads of state [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":42204,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[5304,9214,9351,8116,12246,5345,5575,66,13157,1759,3095,10454,11743,5572,3805,8552,7609,12605,3080,9262,6348,5251,12790,10415],"class_list":["post-42203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news","tag-attack","tag-child","tag-damascus","tag-destruction","tag-diplomatic","tag-foreign-minister","tag-france","tag-germany","tag-islamic","tag-iran","tag-israel","tag-killing","tag-majority","tag-military","tag-president","tag-qatar","tag-terrorist","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-united-states","tag-us","tag-war","tag-weekend","tag-work"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42203"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42205,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42203\/revisions\/42205"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}