President: Iran’s response to any potential attack would be ‘decisive and strong’

President Seyyed Ebrahim Raeisi says Tehran will not start a war but will give a decisive and strong response to any adventurism seeking to bully the Islamic Republic.

"We have said many times that we will not be the initiator of any war, but if a country or a cruel force wants to bully the Islamic Republic of Iran, it will respond firmly," Raeisi said in an address to a large crowd of people in the city of Minab in the southern province of Hormozgan on Friday.

He said Iran's military power does not pose any threat to the countries in West Asia but it is a source of security that the regional states can rely on.

Raeisi said the enemies used to resort to the language of threat against Iran and even said a military option was on the table, but now they announce that they do not seek any confrontation with the Islamic Republic.

He reiterated the deterrent nature of Iran's military might.

The president further pointed to his tour of an exhibition of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Navy earlier in the day and said the enemies cannot tolerate such innovations by Iranian experts and specialists.

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