Iran's Revolutionary Guards commander Hossein Salami said on Friday that Israel was creating conditions for its own destruction with its "evil actions."
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"Stop your vicious deeds. You know well that we are people of action and reaction. Our responses are painful. You create conditions for your own destruction. We will not leave you alone. Wait [for us]," Salami said at a ceremony marking Quds Day [Jerusalem Day] in Tehran, held for the first time since the onset of the COVID pandemic in early 2020.
"You know better than us what will befall you if you take evil action," Salami said.
Thousands of Iranians marched in rallies Tehran on Friday. Iran has been marking the day, observed on the last Friday of Ramadan, since the start of its 1979 Islamic Revolution led by the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
Demonstrators chanted the "death to Israel," and "death to America," slogans that have also become tradition in mass rallies in Iran since its revolution.
Many high-ranking Iranian officials attended the rally in Tehran, including President Ebrahim Raisi.
Also on Friday, a spokesman for Iran's Atomic Energy Organisation was quoted say that a decision to relocate a significant number of its centrifuge machines to a safer location was due to a "terrorist attack" against Iran's Karaj nuclear site.
"Due to the terrorist operation against the TESA Karaj complex, we had to tighten security and relocate a significant part of the centrifuge machines to a safer location," Behrouz Kamalvandi, spokesman for the Atomic Energy Organisation of Iran, was quoted as saying by Iranian media.
He blamed the lack of attention shown by the International Atomic Energy Agency for Israeli "vicious operations" against Iran's nuclear facilities.
On Thursday, UN nuclear watchdog chief Rafael Grossi said on Thursday that Iran had moved a new workshop at Natanz that makes parts for centrifuges for uranium enrichment to an underground location.
The workshop uses machines from a now-closed facility at Karaj, west of Tehran, that last June suffered what Iran says was a sabotage attack by Israel.
The IAEA informed its member states two weeks ago that Iran had moved the machines to Natanz without specifying where at the sprawling site.
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