The head of Revolutionary Guards of Iran, the general Hossein Salamiwarned today the Israel about the “bitter consequences” of the strikes he launched on Saturday against Iranian military positions, according to the Tasnim news agency.

For his part, the representative of the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Ismail Bagai indicated that Tehran will use all available tools to respond to Israel’s attack.

General Salami, head of the elite corps of the Iranian armed forces, said Israel “failed to achieve its insidious objectives” with the airstrikes it launched, which caused “limited damage” and the death of four soldiers.

Israel struck military targets in Iran in response to Iran’s October 1 missile attack, which was launched in retaliation for the assassination of Hamas political leader, Ismail Haniya and Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah.

Salami assessed that the Israeli attack proved Israel’s “miscalculations” and “its incompetence” in its war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip and Hezbollah in Lebanon.

He even warned Israel of the “indescribably bitter consequences” of its attack.

Iranian media downplayed the Israeli attack. Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said on Sunday about the Israeli strikes that we should “neither underestimate nor exaggerate them”.

On the same day, Iranian President Massoud Pezheskian assured that his country does not seek war. “We do not seek war, but we will defend the rights of our country,” he said characteristically.

He also emphasized that Iran will give the “appropriate response to the attack of the Zionist regime”.

For his part, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi reiterated that his country has the “right to respond”, adding that Tehran “received indications” a few hours before the Israeli attack.

According to the US website Axios, Israel “sent a message to Iran” before its response and warned “against a response”.