Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said his country “did not stop” after the bombing of his office, Sky News reports.
Pezeshkian, who took office in 2024, said some powers had been delegated to provinces in Iran during the conflict.
On his platform X, he announced: “We are in direct contact with the governors. The situation is exceptional, but the country has not stopped. Activities continue throughout the country.”
Israeli army attacks
The message comes after the Israeli military said it attacked the “most important and central” command center in Tehran, which includes the presidential office, during a strike last night.
The Israeli army also announced that it had recently attacked a high-ranking Iranian commander in the capital.
Pezeshkian sits on the three-member interim council that took over from Khamenei after his death on Saturday.
Iran announced on Tuesday that the current war with the United States of America and Israel will end “when the aggression stops”, reports Anadolu.
Speaking to reporters at a primary school hit by the US-Israeli attack in Tehran, Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmail Baghaei said the war “was not started by Iran, whose choice was diplomacy”.
The United States and Israel launched a large-scale offensive against Iran on Saturday, killing nearly 800 people, including Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and senior military officials, Iranian sources said.
The attack came days after the US and Iran held a third round of indirect nuclear talks brokered by Oman. Baghaei said that many in Iran opposed negotiations with the US, recalling the previous experience when Israel and the US attacked the country last June.
The spokesman called on the United Nations Security Council and the international community to intervene “before the war spreads to other areas”.
Iran, as he stated, “promised to fight with all its strength in this battle”, adding that the focus is primarily on defending the country from attacks.
“In the past year and a half, we have had many contradictory and misleading messages. Now is the time for war and defense of the homeland. Everything that distracts our attention must be put aside,” he said.
Baghaei pointed out that Iran has repeatedly warned about the “inactivity and indifference” of the international community towards rights violations.
“The world watched the genocide and did not react; it witnessed aggression against neighboring countries and did not respond. We have repeatedly warned that if the world – especially countries that claim to respect the rule of law and that played a key role in shaping the international normative system and the UN Charter – does not act, the fire of lawlessness and rebellion will engulf all countries,” he said.
Iran has so far launched 15 waves of missile and drone strikes against Israel and US targets in the region, including Bahrain, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Iraq, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. Many of these countries condemned the Iranian attacks as unjustified.
