Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei: Retaliation is will of Iranian people

Iran's official news agencies on Saturday, July 11th, published a message attributed to Mojtaba Khamenei, son of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in which he describes retaliation as "the will of the Iranian nation" and emphasizes that this retaliation "must inevitably take place." The message also notes that "criminals" have a list and will not have "a wish for a peaceful death." This statement was released amid regional tensions and references Iran's security and political issues.

• Messages were distributed by Iran's official news agencies independently or through reprinting from one another, emphasizing that retaliation "is the will of our nation."
• The message's speaker, Mojtaba Khamenei, was identified as the son of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
• The message includes a direct quote: "These criminals who have a list from top to bottom against them."
• The statements noted that "free people across the world will take on part of the mission of retaliation."
• The statement attributed to Mojtaba Khamenei was released on Saturday, July 11th.
• The coverage used the terms "criminals" and "retaliation," which are part of the stated messages themselves.. Coverage difference: Iran's official news agencies (IRNA, Mehr, Tejarat News, Vatan-e Emrouz) published identical or nearly identical text, while only BBC Persian maintained relative distance by referring to an "attributed message" and identifying it as a statement by "the third leader of the Islamic Republic," explicitly using the word "attributed," whereas other media outlets published without this caution.