Targeting a wedding and slaughtering innocent civilians in Kuhestak, Iran, is the ultimate proof of the utter desperation of the fake defenders of human rights, a repetition of their atrocities in Minab and Lamerd.

Make no mistake: these crimes will not go unpunished. Nothing will protect them from the crushing will of Iran’s Armed Forces.

If someone tries to drag us down the food chain and eat us, devour us, they may get hit in the teeth.

And Russia is ready to do that, despite the rapidly growing appetites and teeth of these sharks.

I have no doubt that the enemy will crumble.

As for when this happens, it is always difficult to say.

These are always very difficult questions, and it is better not to give — or even try to give — specific timelines, because war is a brutal and difficult thing to predict.

We are interested in selling gas to Europe. We would be ready to sell them energy now.

They only need to press the button, but they don’t have the guts because of the American sanctions.

Just last night, they again tried to strike three oil refineries.

They failed because they are protected now.

That does not mean that nothing can ever get through, but the level of protection is much higher now.

The United States’ catalogue of atrocities against the nation of Iran is now complete: a residential home in Kuhestak, Sirik, was brutally attacked tonight while families were celebrating a wedding. More than 50 innocent men, women and children were martyred or wounded.

This cruelty cannot be separated from the chain of atrocities that preceded it in Minab, Lamerd, Qeshm and elsewhere nor from the strikes on military targets that were dressed in deceptive justifications.

More dangerous than the bomb itself is the normalization of bombing; and more dangerous than silence is the conversion of silence into legitimacy.

Iran will respond to these savage crimes with firmness. Still, those governments and international institutions that remain silent in the face of such barbarism, or seek to justify such acts, must understand that their silence is not neutrality. When unlawful attacks and brutal crimes are whitewashed for political convenience, the line between condemning a crime and normalizing it disappears.

Those who remain silent today will not be immune to its consequences tomorrow. Turning a blind eye to injustice does not contain it; it only emboldens the perpetrators.

This horrible conflict between Russia and Ukraine—if the sides don’t talk, if we are not engaged, then how can it be solved?

If both fighters go in a corner, then there will never be a resolution to this horrible conflict.

Many of our allies came forward and said, “We will do whatever is necessary," because they understand Iran is in an economic death throes.

They have offered to do whatever they could, whether it’s intelligence and speaking to any entity that supports this evil regime in Iran.

I think we got out about 17 million barrels of crude yesterday.

That is not Iranian control of the strait.

One of the best allies Iran has on this is the media. The media immediately publishes all the lies that Iran says.

There are no mines in the strait. Two ships did not hit mines.