Iran’s response to US strikes on tankers will be ‘more painful,’ parliament speaker says

By Reuters 6 September 2026, 12:36 pm

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Iran’s Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf gives a press conference at an event marking 40 days since the burial of the late Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, at Imam Hassan al-Mujtaba Mosque in Iraq’s central holy shrine city of Karbala on August 20, 2026. (Karar Jabbar/AFP)

The US should understand that the rules of the game in war against Iran have changed “before it is too late,” says Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Ghalibaf, a day after the US struck several Iranian tankers in the Gulf.

“From now on, any attack against Iran’s interests and security will receive a faster, heavier and more painful response,” he says in a speech published on his Telegram channel.