The Iranian government said on the 25th (local time) that it would respond to the U.S. military's airstrikes in southern Iran, saying they again violated the cease-fire agreement.

On the 6th, in Tehran, Iran, people ride past a billboard featuring the late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on motorcycles./Courtesy of Yonhap News

In a statement on the 26th, the Iranian Foreign Ministry criticized, "The terrorist U.S. military has routinely carried out illegal and unjust conduct since the cease-fire was announced on April 8," adding, "In particular, over the past 48 hours in the Hormozgan region (in southern Iran), they seriously violated the cease-fire agreement."

It continued, "That these acts of aggression were carried out even as Pakistan's diplomatic mediation is under way makes it glaringly clear that the U.S. administration has once again betrayed its good faith and broken its promises to the Iranian people, the peoples of the region, and the international community."

It added, "The U.S. regime must be held responsible for all the bad consequences of these acts of aggression," and, "Without a doubt, Iran will not stand idly by in the face of any aggression and will not hesitate to defend our integrity."

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