In a post on his X account on Wednesday, Ali Larijani, who serves as secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC), said that the United States had lost some 500 soldiers since it joined Israel in a war on Iran on February 28.
Larijani said that the heavy loss has exposed Trump’s deceitful mantra of putting America First.
“Mr. Trump, swayed by Netanyahu's clownish antics, has dragged the American people into an unjust war with Iran.
Now he must calculate: with over 500 American soldiers killed in just the past few days, does America still come first—or Israel?” he said in the post.
The SNSC chief said that Iran will continue to inflict losses on the enemies as part of its large-scale operation to avenge the assassination of Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, which took place in a joint US-Israeli airstrike on Saturday.
“The story continues. The martyrdom of Imam Khamenei will exact a heavy price from you. God willing,” Larijani said.
Iran has been carrying out successive rounds of retaliatory attacks on the Israeli regime and on US assets in regional countries since the weekend.
The attacks have resulted in unprecedented damage to locations in the Israeli-occupied territories as well as US military bases in several countries bordering or near Iran.
Iranian authorities have made it clear that the attacks will continue until the aggressors are punished.