Iran's Foreign Ministry Spokesman Esmail Baghaei issued one of Tehran's most defiant statements since the war began, pledging to "relentlessly pursue justice" against the United States and Israel for what he called the deliberate targeting of Iranian civilians, infrastructure and military personnel-declaring that every martyr who fell defending the Islamic Republic would be avenged through every legal, diplomatic and military means at Iran's disposal.
Baghaei announced that Iran is filing formal war crimes complaints at the International Court of Justice, compiling a comprehensive dossier of alleged American and Israeli violations of international humanitarian law-including strikes on civilian infrastructure, hospitals and residential areas-as Tehran seeks to internationalise the conflict and build a legal case that could haunt Washington and Tel Aviv in global courts for decades to come.
The pledge came as Iran's military confirmed it had launched its largest single ballistic missile barrage of the war at US bases across the Gulf, with the IRGC declaring the strikes were a direct response to American airstrikes that Tehran says killed dozens of civilians in southern Iran-as the tit-for-tat cycle of strikes and counter-strikes pushed the conflict further from any diplomatic resolution.
With the Strait of Hormuz declared closed, oil prices surging past $110 a barrel and Pakistan's emergency mediation efforts intensifying behind the scenes, Iran's vow of relentless justice signals that Tehran has no intention of backing down — making the coming days the most pivotal and potentially the most dangerous of the entire conflict.
