Iran’s parliament speaker has said Israel’s attacks on his country were a failure when compared with Iran’s October 1 missile attacks and promised that Tehran will retaliate, Al Jazeera reports.

“The Zionist regime has no achievement but genocide and the mass murder of defenceless children and women in Gaza and Lebanon, and today, it has no credibility on the international stage,” Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said in a televised opening address to a closed-doors meeting to evaluate the Israeli attack.

“The Islamic Republic of Iran, in the framework of its inherent right of legitimate self-defence, and Article 51 of the UN Charter, considers itself to have the right to defend itself, and a response to this violation will be certain and in adherence to considerations,” said the former air force commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).

Ghalibaf called the US “the main partner in all the war crimes” of Israel, and said Washington must “reign in” Israel and push it towards reaching a sustainable ceasefire in Gaza and Lebanon to stop the killing of civilians.

The parliament speaker thanked regional neighbours for condemning the Israeli attacks on Iran.