Iran sends a blunt message to the United States: “The rules of the game have changed”
Translated from Turkish and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.
At a glance
- Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said attacks against U.S. interests would draw faster, harsher and more painful responses.
- He said the United States should understand that proportionate responses were no longer the policy and that recent attacks were only a beginning.
- Ghalibaf accused U.S. officials of making empty statements and using artificial intelligence to create wartime images.
Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf delivered a stark warning to the United States, saying the era of limited, proportionate retaliation had ended.
Speaking during an online parliamentary session, Ghalibaf said: “The Americans have definitely understood that the period of ‘proportionate responses’ is over and that our attacks on their bases are only the beginning.” He added that any attack on Iran’s interests would receive a response that was faster, harsher and more painful.
The Americans have definitely understood that the period of proportionate responses is over and that our attacks on their bases are only the beginning. Any attack on Iran’s interests will be met with a faster, harsher and more painful response.
“They must understand that the rules of the game have changed,” Ghalibaf said, according to the Iranian Students News Agency, ISNA.
He also claimed that the United States had become “helpless” in the face of Iran’s attacks. He said American officials were making “empty statements” because of that helplessness and producing war images created with artificial intelligence.
They must understand that the rules of the game have changed.
Originally published by Cumhuriyet in Turkish. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.