“In response to American aggression, the naval and air forces of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps executed a joint operation utilizing missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles. This operation targeted 85 significant American military sites, including Salman Port, the headquarters of the U.S. Fifth Fleet in Bahrain, and Ali Al-Salem Air Base in Kuwait. Furthermore, an American MQ-9 unmanned aerial vehicle attempting to intervene in the operation was shot down.”

“People are afraid to sleep at night… Where is the limit of this hardship, when the people will say, ‘Vladimir Vladimirovich [Putin], we have to respond! I don’t know, but I think it is very close. Very close. Right now, you are playing with fire.”

"Sometimes it seems to me that you people in Europe have really all gone a little crazy. Please tell me, during these five years, has a single Russian missile hit Europe?

Has a single Russian tank been sent anywhere into Europe?

Has a single Russian combat aircraft flown anywhere into Europe?

(No, no, no.)

And how many European missiles, tanks, and aircraft have been sent into, and hit, Russia in all this time? Thousands.

And after that, you're asking me about Russia's responsibility? Russia has not laid a finger on Europe. It is Europe that is sending its tanks, aircraft, missiles and drones into Russia, causing a transportation crisis, a gasoline crisis in Russia, and so on..."