Khamenei ordered commanders to be ready to act in any area if Iran is threatened.
The supreme leader of Iran, the supreme commander of the armed forces, Ayatollah Mujtaba Khamenei, in a meeting with commanders, gave orders to prepare to act wherever necessary in response to threats to the country. "At this meeting, the leader of the Islamic Revolution called reasonable combat readiness for a powerful confrontation with enemies one of the components of maximum deterrence and stated that any level and type of threat must be responded to immediately and effectively without geographical restrictions," Mehar reports.