- Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei has thanked the Iraqi people and religious leadership for their support of Iran “in the face of aggression.”
- Iran's state media reported on the message Sunday without saying how it was conveyed.
- Khamenei has not been seen in public since the outbreak of war. His father, the slain supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was killed in US-Israeli strikes on his compound on 28 February.
- Iranian state media have shared written messages by Mojtaba Khamenei to the public via its channels.
- Iranian armed forces are waiting for a ground invasion by US troops and are ready to “set them on fire and punish their regional partners forever” speaker of Iran’s parliament, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said in a published message broadcast by state media on Sunday.
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