A military source tells Tasnim that Iran will respond to US attacks in multiple ways

• A senior military source told Tasnim that the Iranian armed forces will definitely respond to the Americans' crime tonight in attacking parts of our country, and this response will be multiple times their attacks.
• Source said as we had previously warned and promised, the Iranian armed forces will respond decisively and extensively to any aggression against our country's territory and interests.
• The military source noted: American interests and bases in the region are rapidly being attacked by Iran.

Retaliation rhetoric delivered through semi-official channels such as Tasnim is the standard opening move in direct US-Iran exchanges; episodes of this kind have tended to follow a recognizable sequence of maximalist threat, a calibrated strike on regional US positions, and then competing claims over damage that determine whether the exchange closes or ladders upward. The operative distinction is between a response aimed at bases and assets, which prior rounds have shown can be absorbed and de-escalated, and one that touches shipping lanes or energy infrastructure in the Gulf, which historically is what transmits durably into crude through freight, insurance premia, and supply risk rather than through headline noise alone. The phrase 'multiple times their attacks' signals intent to claim escalation dominance, but Iranian practice in past confrontations has often paired strong language with telegraphed, casualty-light strikes designed to allow both sides to stand down. What is worth watching is the target set and casualty count of the initial response, any movement against Strait of Hormuz transit, and whether Washington frames the exchange as concluded. The immediate market pattern in such episodes has been a crude and gold bid with haven flows into the front of the rates curve, retracing if the retaliation proves symbolic.