Tehran/Jerusalem, June 13 -- Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei said on Friday that Israel will receive harsh punishment following Israeli airstrikes on Iranian targets earlier in the day.
Israel "has prepared a bitter fate for itself, which it will definitely receive," he said in a statement.
Spokesman for the Iranian Armed Forces Abolfazl Shekarchi said in an interview with state-run IRIB TV that Israel would pay a heavy price for its action, stressing that the Iranian armed forces were well-prepared and would give a harsh response.
Multiple senior military commanders, including Chief Commander of Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps Hossein Salami, Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces Mohammad Bagheri and Commander of Iran'...