Iran President Masoud Pezeshkian on Tuesday said the Israeli regime was forced to unilaterally halt its aggression against the Islamic Republic after receiving a "severe and historic" punishment at the hands of the Iranian nation and its armed forces.
He made the remarks in a message addressed to the people, commending the "epoch-making" nation for its "courageous steadfastness" that paved the way for victory, Press TV reported.
"All the pride ascribed to this victory belongs to the great nation of Iran that prides itself on its civilizational legacy," he added.
The Israeli regime ended its 12-day-long war of aggression on Iran in the early hours of Tuesday after suffering heavy blows at the hands of Iranian armed forces.
In the 22 phases of Operation True Promise III, Iranian armed forces launched hundreds of ballistic missiles, including multi-warhead projectiles, and drones at strategic Israeli military sites in the occupied territories, including the bases used by the regime to launch its attacks.
Pezeshkian said the losses that had been suffered by the enemy as a result of the reprisal were "unimaginable," despite the intense media censorship that the regime had imposed.
According to the Iranian president, it was the Israeli regime's adventurism and warmongering attitude that triggered the war, and it was the great Iranian nation that spelled an end to it by facing up to the aggressor and forcing it to retreat.
The remarks came a day after American media outlets reported that the regime had asked Iran, through Western mediators, to stop the retaliatory attacks amid monumental damage across the occupied territories resulting from round-the-clock Iranian missile barrages.
The unilateral halt in the regime's aggression against Iran was announced by US President Donald Trump in the early hours of Tuesday.
A day before the announcement, Iranian armed forces fired a missile barrage at al-Udeid, Washington's most important military base in the West Asia region, located in Qatar.
It was in response to American aggression against Iranian nuclear sites in brazen and blatant violation of international law.
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