It's very sad to see that the relationship is obviously not what it was. It's a different world, actually. It's just a much different kind of relationship that we've had with your country before.
Two or three weeks ago, I would've thought that Iran might be free by the time I was 90, and I could die there. I had this vision of me walking through the airport with a cane. Now, at age 48, I can see myself making a trip back to Iran within the next year, and potentially living there permanently within the next five.
Iran strikes energy infrastructure across the Gulf as IRGC announces closure of Strait of Hormuz. Israeli forces continue their assault on Tehran and Beirut, including a strike on the Iranian state broadcaster, as the death toll in Iran and Lebanon surpasses 600 people.
Appearing on state television just 24 hours after US-Israeli air strikes killed Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) commander, Mohammad Pakpour, Larijani delivered a message of fire. America and the Zionist regime [Israel] have set the heart of the Iranian nation ablaze, he wrote on social media. We will burn their hearts.
