Iran’s Khamenei: Israel will face a ‘bitter and painful fate’ for strikes

By Agencies 13 June 2025, 6:17 am 6 Edit

Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks to a group of people and officials in Tehran, Iran, on March 21, 2025. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei says Israel will face a “severe punishment” over its strikes on the country.

Khamenei issues a statement carried by the state-run IRNA news agency. It confirms that top military officials and scientists had been killed in the strikes that also targeted nuclear and military sites.

Israel “opened its wicked and blood-stained hand to a crime in our beloved country, revealing its malicious nature more than ever by striking residential centers,” Khamenei says.

“With this crime, the Zionist regime has set itself for a bitter and painful fate and it will definitely receive it,” Khamenei says.