Iranian President Pezeshkian says Americans should receive a response 'after US strikes on core websites | Today news

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian issued a strict warning to the United States on Sunday (June 22) following the early morning air strikes at Iran’s major nuclear sites by American forces. “The Americans need to receive an answer to their aggression,” Pezeshkian said, according to French President Emmanuel Macron, according to Irna, state -owned Irna. In a post on social media platform X, Pezeshkian also tried to get the Iranian public: “We walk together this path; we keep #iran together; and we will show the world that this great nation is #UnBreat. To be together our victory …” Iran confirms again to do self -defense after the strikes on Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan, the Iranz to defend essential ways ”. Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei condemned the attack in a detailed statement posted to X, which called it an ‘unconscious act of aggression-which was carried out by a nuclear armed state … against a weapon in the weapon.’ He further accused the US of violating international norms: “It has now become quite clear that the US government has put together with a war criminal and genocide-warmer … it is a blatant violation of international law, the United Nations Charter and the Treaty on the non-distribution of nuclear weapons.” Key stock intact, says Khamenei’s adviser Ali Shamkhani, a senior adviser of Iran’s highest leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has delayed the effectiveness of US strikes, claiming that Iran’s core ability remains intact. “Even if nuclear sites are destroyed, play is not over. Enriched materials, indigenous knowledge and political will remain,” Shamkhani said. He added a cryptic warning: “The political and operational initiative is now with the side playing smartly, avoid blind strikes. Surprises will continue!” No radiation victims of the US strike, says Health Ministry, Iran, said the contingency plans at hospitals are in place near core places, but that none of the casualties treated show signs of radiation exposure. “Fortunately, none of the casualties sent to these centers after the US bombing had radiation pollution,” Ministry spokeswoman Hossein Kermanpour said. “The Ministry of Health has established #nuclear_ units in the nearest medical facilities for years.” Operation Midnight Hammer is aimed at important core facilities in a dramatic escalation of the Middle East tension, and the United States launched precision air attacks on Iran’s nuclear sites early Sunday under Operation Midnight Hammer. The operation, personally authorized by President Donald Trump, targeted Iran’s strongly reinforced Fordow, Nathanz and Isfahan facilities previously reported that he had enriched uranium near arms degree. Trump said in a television speech: “There will be peace, or there will be a tragedy for Iran,” Trump said in a television speech, defending the decision as an essential measure to stop what he called “the world’s most dangerous regime” to obtain nuclear weapons. The strikes were performed without prior approval of the congress. Trump warned Iran against retaliation, saying that further aggression would be with even more devastating power. Defense Secretary Hegseth: US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Sunday that US air strikes on Iran’s core facilities have achieved their goals, especially on the strongly reinforced Fordow site, which delivered a significant blow to Tehran’s uranium enrichment infrastructure. Hegseth said during a Pentagon Press briefing: “The assessment of the fighting damage continues, but our initial assessment, as the chairman said, is that all our precision ammunition struck where we wanted to strike and had the desired effect, which was especially in Fordow, which was the primary target.” The defense secretary made it clear that the mission – part of Operation Midnight Hammer – was focused only on the humiliating Iran’s core threat and defended us and Allied forces in the region. “This mission was not and was not about regime change,” Hegseth said. “The president authorized a precision operation to neutralize the threats for our national interests that hold through the Iranian nuclear program, and the collective self-defense of our troops and our ally, Israel. And the US Army – we can back it up. The most powerful army the world has ever known – no other country on planet Earth could have performed the operation that the chairman will set out this morning. “Rubio also offers a diplomatic opening secretary Marco Rubio to a diplomatic exit. He made it clear that there were no current plans for extra strikes unless Iran “walks around.”