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Jafar Gampane admitted that the price Iran paid for its refusal to stop the nuclear program is too high. "What cost could be higher than the martyrdom of the Supreme Leader?" the Vice President wondered. In Tehran, they are threatening the United States: "We will strike at America's economic interests if the blockade continues - we will send Netanyahu to hell."

After claiming for months that the strategic strait was safe for passage, the US President announced that all mines in Hormuz had been "removed or detonated," and warned Iran that any attempt to lay new mines would be met with "immediate and systematic" destruction. Simultaneously, Tehran claimed: The Pakistani Chief of Staff did not arrive with a threatening American message, but to open a...

Mohsen Rezaee has been appointed Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council. The former IRGC commander, who served for 16 years, replaces Mohammad Baqer Zol-Qadr. Rezaee is known for his hardline stance against the US and is considered a close associate of Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei.