Supreme leader's adviser says war will continue until Iran is compensated

Mohsen Rezaei, the senior military adviser to Iranian Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, said the war will continue until Iran receives full compensation for damage it has sustained.

In a televised speech aired Monday, Rezaei also vowed that Iran would keep fighting until “all economic sanctions are lifted, and legally binding international guarantees are obtained to prevent US interference in Iran.”

“We see that our armed forces are carrying out operations and activities with strength. Our leadership project, with the selection of a new leader, has firmly come under his management,” Rezaei said.

The adviser claimed that “the war was effectively over” more than a week ago and that “the United States was ready to stop and pursue a ceasefire.” But Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “pushed to continue,” he said.

Rezaei claimed that after Day 15, “the US clearly understood that there was no path to victory in this war.”