Khamenei reposts video vowing to 'punish' Israel for consulate bombing

Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has posted a video recorded on Wednesday in which he vowed that Israel would be "punished".

"Attacking our consulate is like attacking our soil. This is what is common around the world. The malicious Zionist regime has made a wrong move in this case. It should be punished and it will be punished," he said in a video captioned in English and posted to X social media a little more than hour after a salvo of drones were launched toward Israel.

On 1 April, an air strike hit the Iranian consulate in Damascus, killing a general and six other senior commanders.