Almost all officials are safe and alive.

We may have lost one or two commanders, but that is not a big problem.

We are attacking American bases in an act of self-defense.

We cannot just sit and watch as they attack us.

I don’t know why the U.S. administration insists on starting negotiations and then, in the middle of them, attacking the other party.

What happened today is exactly what happened in June.

Perhaps it was others who dragged the United States into this conflict for their own benefit.

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and President Masoud Pezeshkian are alive, as far as I know.

All high-ranking officials are alive.

We are facing an act of aggression, and obviously we have every right to defend ourselves. So what we are doing is an act of self-defense, which is absolutely legal and legitimate.

We learned many lessons from the previous war, and we will certainly teach the aggressors a lesson they deserve.

For the time being, we don’t need anybody for our defense.

We are capable enough to defend ourselves, and we will do that.

We don’t need the help of anybody.

Once the aggression is stopped, we will also stop our self-defense.

A regime change is “mission impossible.”

You cannot do a regime change while millions of people are supporting this so-called regime.

We are a great nation with a great civilization; we have lasted thousands of years.

We know how to defend ourselves, and we will survive.

The President of another country, no matter how powerful, has no right to decide for the people of another country.

There is no communication right now, but if the Americans want to talk to us, they know how they can contact me.

We are certainly interested for de-escalation. This is not our war.

This is an imposed war against us. This is a war of choice by the United States, and they have to pay for that, and I'm sure they will.

We are ready for de-escalation, but the aggression should be stopped first, the attacks should be stopped first.

And then there is the possibility of talks, and we can consider that.