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Public rallies are set to take place across Iran on Friday following weekly prayers, despite ongoing Israeli military attacks, Fars News, a media outlet affiliated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, reported.
The event, called the “Friday of Rage and Victory,” is meant to show unity and defiance in response to Israeli strikes, Fars said.
Ali Shamkhani, a senior advisor to Iran’s Supreme Leader, is alive and in stable condition, according to Fars News, a media outlet affiliated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
Fars quoted Shamkhani on Friday as saying he is “alive and ready to sacrifice,” in a text message addressed to Iran’s leadership and public.
Shamkhani was reportedly seriously wounded in a June 13 Israeli strike on his residence and transferred to a hospital in Tehran, according to Nour News, which is close to the Supreme National Security Council.
Iran International had earlier reported, citing sources, that Shamkhani had succumbed to his injuries.
“The Zionist enemy is being punished. It is being punished right now,” the official X account of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei said on Friday.
Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz warned Hezbollah on Friday to stay out of the Iran-Israel conflict, saying the group “has not learned the lesson of its predecessors.”
“The Lebanese proxy should be careful and understand that if there is terror – there will be no Hezbollah,” Katz wrote on X.
His comments followed a statement by Hezbollah’s leader Sheikh Naim Qassem, who said the group was not neutral in the face of Israeli and US aggression and backed Iran’s right to defend itself.
Israeli attacks on Iran have killed at least 657 people and injured 2,037 over the past seven days, the US-based Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) said on Friday.
The toll includes 263 civilian deaths and 164 military personnel, while the status of 230 others remains unclear, according to the report. The most recent fatalities were two soldiers killed in the city of Abhar, Zanjan province, HRANA said.
