politics

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, in a statement quoted by Reuters via the Iranian news agency Tasnim, responded to recent remarks by U.S. President Donald Trump, who had called for Iran’s unconditional surrender. Khamenei declared that the Iranian people “never surrender” and emphasized that the country will stand firm in the face of both a “forced war and a forced peace.”

The Ayatollah noted that Iranians “react poorly to the language of threats” and vowed that any U.S. military intervention would lead to irreparable consequences.

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Iran’s state TV airs footage of Israeli drone it says was shot down in Isfahan
From CNN’s Eugenia Yosef and Christian Edwards
Iranian state TV aired footage on Wednesday that it reported as showing an Israeli Hermes drone that was shot down in Iran’s central Isfahan province.

In the video, a reporter stands in front of a drone that crashed into the ground and sustained heavy damage. CNN could not independently verify the footage.

The Israel Defense Forces said that a surface-to-air missile had been fired towards an Israeli Air Force drone, and that the drone then “fell in Iran.”

No injuries were reported and there is no risk of an information breach, the IDF said.