The spokesman for Iran’s Foreign Ministry slammed the early assessments by some ‎Western media officials that a Ukrainian airliner carrying dozens of civilians have been shot ‎down in the Iran.‎

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif warned of any US response to Tehran's reprisal for the assassination of IRGC Qods Force Commander Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani, and said US pullout from the region is the main revenge to be taken from Washington.

Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei extended his condolences over the stampede and plane crash incidents in Iran which killed over 200 people.

This still image from an IRIB video shot on January 8, 2020, shows missiles launched from ‎Iran agAynst the US military base in Ayn-al Asad in Iraq.‎

The Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces warned the United States that any new evil ‎act will draw Iran’s “stronger, more crushing, and broader” response, hours after the IRGC ‎stormed two American military bases in Iraq in retaliation for the assassination of Lt. General ‎Qasem Soleymani.‎

Ayatollah Khamenei underlined that although the US has just received a slap across the face by Iran’s early ‎Wednesday morning retaliatory attacks, military reprisal is not enough and the American ‎forces should leave the region.‎

Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has targeted the US airbase of Ain al-Assad in Anbar province in western Iraq after launching a wave of attacks to retaliate the US assassination of top Iranian anti-terror commander, Lt. Gen. Qassem Soleimani.

Millions of mourners have thronged the streets in Iran’s southeastern city of Kerman, the hometown of Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani, to attend a final funeral and burial rituals for the top defense strategist, who was assassinated by the US military during a visit to neighboring Iraq.

Iran's Ambassador to London Hamid Baeedinejad denounced British daily The Times which earlier had claimed that a source from the Islamic Revolution Guard Corp (IRGC) Qods Force had told the paper that Iran would kill British troops for retaliating the US assassination of Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani.

Daughter of IRGC Qods Force Commander Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani who was assassinated by the US in Iraq on Friday warned families of the American soldiers stationed in the region that they will not be able to enjoy calm and peace anymore as their loved ones will be targeted by the resistance forces.