India, June 28 -- Hours after United States President Donald Trump slammed Iran for Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei's victory speech, the country responded with a veiled jibe at Trump's intervention.

Iran said that Israel had no choice "but to run to "daddy"" to avoid being "flattened" by Iranian missiles.

"The Great and Powerful Iranian People, who showed the world that the Israeli regime had NO CHOICE but to RUN to "Daddy" to avoid being flattened by our Missiles, do not take kindly to Threats and Insults," Iran's foreign minister Seyed Abbad Araghchi posted on X.

He said that while the complexity of Iranians was famously known through their carpets, the basic premise of their people was "simple and straightforward". Araghchi said ...