{"id":15208,"date":"2025-06-13T04:38:23","date_gmt":"2025-06-13T03:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/londonpost.news\/?p=15208"},"modified":"2025-06-13T04:44:03","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T03:44:03","slug":"khamenei-vows-severe-punishment-after-israeli-strikes-kill-irgc-commanders-in-tehran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/be\/asia\/middle-east\/iran\/khamenei-vows-severe-punishment-after-israeli-strikes-kill-irgc-commanders-in-tehran\/2025\/06\/13\/admin1\/","title":{"rendered":"Khamenei vows &#8220;severe punishment&#8221; after Israeli strikes kill IRGC commanders in Tehran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\">TEHRAN, June 13\u00a0\u2013 Iran\u2019s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei vowed &#8220;<strong>severe punishment<\/strong>&#8221; against Israel following deadly airstrikes on Iranian soil, denouncing the attacks as a &#8220;<strong>bloody and criminal act<\/strong>&#8221; that targeted\u00a0<strong>civilian areas<\/strong>\u00a0in\u00a0<strong>Tehran<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>More:<a href=\"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/be\/middle-east-israel-hits-iran-with-preemptive-strikes\/\">Israel assassinates IRGC Chief in massive strikes on Iranian nuclear sites; Tehran vows retaliation | Brussels Independent<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\">In a fiery statement, Khamenei accused the &#8220;<strong>Zionist regime<\/strong>&#8221; of extending its &#8220;<strong>filthy, bloodstained hand<\/strong>&#8221; against Iran at dawn, claiming the strikes exposed Israel\u2019s &#8220;<strong>wickedness<\/strong>&#8221; through\u00a0<strong>attacks on residential zones<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h6>&#8220;This regime must expect a severe punishment,&#8221; declared the Supreme Leader, asserting that Iran\u2019s armed forces would ensure retaliation: &#8220;The strong hand of the Islamic Republic\u2019s military will not let it go unpunished, God willing.&#8221;<\/h6>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\">Khamenei\u00a0<strong>confirmed deaths<\/strong>\u00a0of\u00a0<strong>Iranian commanders and nuclear scientists<\/strong>\u00a0during the assault \u2013 a reference to Thursday\u2019s assassination of\u00a0<strong>IRGC chief Hossein Salami<\/strong>\u00a0and other officials. He issued a stark warning: &#8220;With this crime, Israel has paved the way toward a\u00a0<strong>bitter and painful fate<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 and it will undoubtedly face it.&#8221;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEHRAN, June 13\u00a0\u2013 Iran\u2019s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei vowed &#8220;severe punishment&#8221; against Israel following deadly airstrikes on Iranian soil, denouncing the attacks as a &#8220;bloody and criminal act&#8221; that targeted\u00a0civilian areas\u00a0in\u00a0Tehran. More:Israel assassinates IRGC Chief in massive strikes on Iranian nuclear sites; Tehran vows retaliation | Brussels Independent In a fiery statement, Khamenei accused [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15209,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":""},"categories":[2450,2452,8273],"tags":[201,646,8070,9656,9691],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Iran_-strike.png","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15208"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15208"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15215,"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15208\/revisions\/15215"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}