Iranian President Ibrahim Raisi said that his country will not accept any attempts to destabilize security and stability in the region, stressing that any wrong move by the United States will be met with a "strict, tight and direct" response from Tehran.
He stressed that "there is no room for Zionist ambitions in this region, and that "some countries normalizing their relations with Israel will not bring security to the Zionist entity."
He added, "Our military strength, capabilities and capabilities bring security to this region, while US and foreign interventions in our region will not enhance stability, but rather will lead to insecurity in the region."
In parallel with a major warning, the Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces, Major General Muhammad Bagheri, said that his country is under security and military threats, and that the Iranian armed forces must be ready to face these difficult and complex wars, as he put it.
Bagheri added that Iran faces security and armed threats in the border areas with Afghanistan and the border areas in the northwest of the country, and that the Iranian armed forces must be ready to confront these threats that the enemy is betting on, as he put it.
Psychological warfare 'the enemy will pay for it'
In turn, the spokesman for the Iranian armed forces, Brigadier General Abu Al-Fadl Shakarji, said that those he called enemies realize that they will pay the price for using the phrase "resort to force" with Iran.
Shkarji added that the use of this phrase by US President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid is part of psychological warfare.
Shakarji explained that resorting to the term force against Iran also aims to plunder Gulf oil for free, restore America's prestige in the region, delay the collapse of Israel and save the American economy by selling arms to the region, as he put it.
The Iranian official called on Washington to realize the realities of the region and the world and learn from past experiences, citing examples of what he called the US-Israeli defeats in Iran, the Gulf waters, Iraq, Lebanon, Yemen, Syria, Gaza, Erbil and Afghanistan.
For his part, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani said it was a mistake to consider his country the only party targeted by the United States' firm and decisive assertion of maintaining Israel's security and military superiority.
Kanaani added - in a tweet on his Twitter account - that according to the joint declaration of US President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid, Arab and Islamic countries must always accept the superiority of the Zionist regime, as he put it.
And he considered in a second tweet that as long as Israel is the first stop in the tours of American presidents, and the first goal is to preserve its security and supremacy, the peoples and countries of the region will not achieve peace, stability and calm.
The position on Iran and its nuclear program took a large part in the discussions and statements of US President Joe Biden and Israeli officials during the last two days since the start of Biden's visit to Israel.
And the "Jerusalem statement" - which US President Joe Biden signed yesterday, Thursday in occupied Jerusalem, during the second day of his tour in the region, with Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid and called it the "Jerusalem Declaration" for strategic partnership - stipulated the United States' commitment not to allow Iran to acquire a nuclear weapon and to confront its activities. Iranian forces in the region, whether directly or through its proxies such as Hamas, Hezbollah and Islamic Jihad, according to the statement.
Biden said during a press conference that diplomacy is the best way to deter Iran, and that his country will not allow it to obtain a nuclear weapon because that is a vital interest to the security of the United States, Israel and the rest of the world.
In turn, Lapid said in a joint press conference with Biden that "the terrorists want to destroy the only Jewish state in the world," noting that the only way to prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon is the need to realize that "the free world will use force by imposing a credible military threat."