Armed forces will fight until complete victory: Iran
The spokesman of Iran’s top military command said on Tuesday that its armed forces will fight “until complete victory.” The comments by Major General Ali Abdollahi Aliabadi of the Khatam-al Anbiya Central Headquarters appeared to be related to US President Donald Trump’s announcement that there were negotiations ongoing between Tehran and Washington.
Iran has denied that any talks are taking place, though its foreign minister has been talking to counterparts around the region.
Iranian state television quoted Aliabadi as saying: “Iran’s powerful armed forces are proud, victorious and steadfast in defending Iran’s integrity, and this path will continue until complete victory.” The general did not say what “complete victory” would look like, but it appeared likely Iran’s military was trying to warn against offering concessions in any possible negotiations with the United States.
Iran targets Israel, Gulf Arab states
A missile slammed into a street in central Tel Aviv as Iran kept up its barrages targeting Israel and Gulf Arab states on Tuesday, even as President Donald Trump said the United States was in talks with the Islamic Republic to end the war. Trump also delayed a deadline for Iran to open the Strait of Hormuz for shipping or see its power stations targeted by airstrikes, briefly driving down oil prices and boosting stocks.
The delay offered a reprieve after the US and Iran traded threats over the weekend of strikes that could have cut electricity to millions in Iran and around the Gulf and knocked out desalination plants that provide many desert nations with drinking water, while raising fears of possible catastrophe if nuclear plants were hit.
But any information on the talks described by Trump remains in dispute with Iran, which denied that any talks had been held. “No negotiations have been held with the US,” Iranian parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf posted on X. “Fakenews is used to manipulate the financial and oil markets,” he added.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel will continue to strike Iran and Lebanon even as the US considers a ceasefire. “There’s more to come,” he said. Iran’s Foreign
Minister Abbas Araghchi has been talking about the war this week to his counterparts in Azerbaijan, Egypt, Oman, Pakistan, Russia, South Korea, Turkey and Turkmenistan, his office said.
