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Iran's Military Spokesman Says Trump and Netanyahu Will Be Punished Even After War Ends

Courtroom-sketch editorial illustration of a grey Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy speedboat flying an Iranian flag on open sea, two crewmen in orange life vests at its centre console and a third behind a mounted machine gun on the bow, drawn from a June 20, 2022 U.S. Navy image of Guard speedboats approaching U.S. ships in the Strait of Hormuz; a contextual image of Iranian naval forces in the strait, not a depiction of armed forces spokesman Abolfazl Shekarchi's September 2026 remarks on Iranian state television.

Brig. Gen. Abolfazl Shekarchi, the senior spokesman of Iran's armed forces, said in an interview on Iranian state television Saturday evening that "Trump and Netanyahu are murderers and will be punished." He added that even with the end of the war, Iran would not let go of those he called the killers of its "martyred Imam" and of the Iranian nation. Shekarchi said any ship passing through the Strait of Hormuz outside the Iranian route "will have no security" and that the United States would "get a slap" if it intervened there. He said Iran's missiles and drones were more advanced and that "the will of the Islamic Republic is the destruction of its enemies."

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