Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian criticized the United States and some Western countries for supporting Israel's attacks on Iran.
He said that if Israeli attacks continue, Iran's responses "will be more decisive and severe.”
Pezeshkian said that Israel "is not capable of any action without the permission of the US” and that “what we are witnessing today is being done with the direct support of Washington.”
In a report carried on state TV, Pezeshkian said that Iran has never sought war and conflict. “However, just as our armed forces, including the powerful army and Revolutionary Guard, have so far provided appropriate and firm responses, in case of continued hostile actions, the responses will be more decisive and severe.”
Israeli strikes in Iran have killed at least 406 people and wounded another 654, a human rights group said Sunday.
The Washington-based group Human Rights Activists said its figures covered the entirety of Iran.
Iran’s government has not offered any overall casualty figures from Israeli attacks that have decimated its military leadership and targeted its nuclear sites. Individual officials have offered piecemeal figures.
Iran on Sunday said an Israeli strike that killed the head of the Revolutionary Guard’s missile program also took out seven of his trusted deputies, seriously disrupting its command.
Iran previously acknowledged the death of Gen. Amir Ali Hajizadeh, the head of the Guard’s aerospace division in Friday's strike.
Also killed were Gen. Mahmoud Bagheri, Gen. Davoud Sheikhian, Gen. Mohammad Bagher Taherpour, Gen. Mansour Safarpour, Gen. Masoud Tayyeb, Gen. Khosro Hasani and Gen. Javad Jarsara, the Guard said Sunday.
The Guard did not elaborate on why the men had gathered in one place.
