India, June 26 -- Iran on Thursday claimed victory over the "US regime," stating that it had delivered a "heavy slap" to the country's face with airstrikes on Al Udeid air base in Qatar.

In a series of posts on X after the ceasefire with Israel, Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatolla Ali Khamenei said: "My congratulations on our dear Iran's victory over the US regime. The US regime entered the war directly because it felt that if it didn't, the Zionist regime would be completely destroyed. It entered the war in an effort to save that regime but achieved nothing."

The ceasefire followed the US strike on three nuclear sites in Iran and then Tehran's retaliatory attack at a US base in Qatar.

"The Islamic Republic delivered a heavy slap to the US'...