Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian says Tehran will definitely give a “stronger and more crushing” response to Israel if it commits the “slightest” mistake, reports Mehr News Agency.

Pezeshkian, who is on a two-day visit to Qatar, made the statement in a Wednesday meeting with a high-ranking delegation from the Palestinian movement Hamas.

He criticized Western countries for making empty promises, saying they invited Iran to exercise self-restraint and refrain from giving a response to Israel’s July assassination of Ismail Haniyeh, the head of Hamas political bureau, in Tehran in exchange for the establishment of ceasefire in Gaza.

Therefore, "the continuation of the Zionist regime’s crimes made the Armed Forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran to give a decisive response,” Pezeshkian added.

The Iranian president condemned the actions carried out by Israel in Gaza and Lebanon, and lashed out at the United States and Western countries for pursuing hypocritical approaches, saying they back Israel while claiming to advocate democracy and human rights.

Furthermore, the Iranian president reiterated the need to foster coherence among Muslim nations, emphasizing that the lack of such unity has emboldened the Israeli regime to “commit more crimes against the oppressed people of Palestine and Lebanon.”

The Iranian president noted that the ongoing developments in the region are the “outcome of lack of unity among Muslim states."