Iran’s Armed Forces General Staff, the country’s highest military staff body, and Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters, its top joint operational command, said US air strikes on Tuesday would draw a forceful response and impose heavy costs on Washington.

“In response to the US military’s air strikes on locations in Sistan and Baluchestan and Hormozgan, the armed forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran will deliver crushing and devastating blows to the vile and hostile American enemy,” the two military bodies said in a joint statement.

“The more the terrorist US military persists in its hostile actions in the region, the greater and heavier the losses it will have to bear,” the statement said.

“We have repeatedly declared, and are determined, that under no circumstances will we retreat from the rights of the heroic Iranian nation, and we will impose heavy costs on the American enemy.” – editor@nrifocus.com