‘Even parks, recreational areas and tourist destinations anywhere in the world will no longer be safe for you,’ the spokesman said.
Tehran on March 20 said that recreational areas and tourist destinations around the world will not be safe for Iran’s enemies.
Iran’s top military spokesman, Gen. Abolfazl Shekarchi, made the threat as the regime continues to be bombarded by U.S. and Israeli airstrikes.
“From now on, based on the information we have about you, even parks, recreational areas and tourist destinations anywhere in the world will no longer be safe for you,” Shekarchi said in a statement published online by Iranian state television.
The threat came the same day that the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said it killed the spokesman for the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, Gen. Ali Mohammad Naini, with the death confirmed by the Iranian state-linked Tasnim News Agency.
Before he was killed, Naini said that Tehran was still building missiles, an apparent attempt to counter remarks from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who said that Iran’s ability to produce ballistic missiles had been taken out.
“We are producing missiles even during war conditions, which is amazing, and there is no particular problem in stockpiling,” Naini said in a report quoted by Iran’s state-run IRAN newspaper.
Naini was the latest senior Iranian figure to be eliminated in airstrikes by Israel, after the IDF killed Iran’s intelligence minister, Esmail Khatib, on March 18, following the killing of security chief Ali Larijani and Basij militia head Gholam Reza Soleimani on March 17.
Mojtaba Khamenei
Iran’s previous leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was the first senior regime figure to have been killed in the Iran War, after being targeted on Feb. 28 during the opening salvo of the joint U.S.–Israeli attack.
He was recently succeeded by his son, Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, who on March 20 called for the enemies of Iran to have their “security” taken away.
The remarks came in a statement issued on his behalf to Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, following the killing of Khatib.
Khamenei has not been seen publicly since he was appointed to replace his father, with U.S. and Israeli officials suspecting that he is injured.
U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth on March 13 questioned why Khamenei had issued a written statement, with no video or audio, saying he is “wounded and likely disfigured.”
“Iran has plenty of cameras and plenty of voice recorders. Why a written statement? I think you know why,” Hegseth said during a Pentagon press briefing. “His father is dead, he’s scared, he’s injured, he’s on the run, and he lacks legitimacy.”
A senior Israeli security official told Epoch Magazine that Israel had indications Khamenei suffered a leg injury during strikes targeting the bunker of his father.
The Israeli official said the extent of Khamenei’s injuries remains unclear.
