How Iran responded to Trump's remarks?

In a statement aired by Iran's state-owned Press TV, the spokesperson for the Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters asserted that the US intelligence about Iran's military strength remains "incomplete", and rejected Trump's claims about damaging Iran's military infrastructure and capabilities.

"Your intelligence on our military power and equipment is incomplete. You know nothing of our vast strategic capabilities. Do not assume you have destroyed our strategic missile production sites, long-range attack and precision drones, modern air-defence systems, electronic warfare, or special equipment," Press TV quoted the spokesperson as saying.

According to the spokesperson, Washington is unaware of Iran's "vast strategic capabilities", as he dismissed Donald Trump's claims of "dramatically curtailing" Tehran's ability to launch missiles and drones, adding that sites targeted by the US were "insignificant".

"Such assumptions will only deepen the quagmire you have fallen into. The sites you think you hit are insignificant; our strategic military production takes place at locations you do not know about and will never reach. Do not bother trying to count our missiles, drones, and strategic systems; you will be wrong and achieve nothing," he said.

What Iran said about ending the conflict?

The spokesperson said the US will pay initiating the war against Iran, and stressed that the conflict will continue until Washington faces "permanent humiliation", while warning of more "crushing and devastating strikes".

"You must pay for the aggression you started against our honourable, beloved, Muslim nation. This war will continue until you face permanent humiliation, regret, and surrender. Expect more crushing and devastating strikes from us in continuation of the severe blows you have already received," he was quoted as saying.

The Central Khatam al-Anbiya Headquarters is Iran's highest operational command unit that coordinates operations between the Iranian Army and the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC).

Trump claims Iran's military and navy are 'gone'

The Iranian military's response comes after Donald Trump claimed the US had achieved core objectives of its military campaign against Iran, reiterating his claim that Iran's navy and air force had been destroyed, while its "terrorist" leaders had been killed.

"Iran's navy is gone, its air force is in ruins, and its leaders, most of them terrorists, are now dead," Trump claimed in his first address to the nation on Wednesday night (local time), since the US-Israeli war against Iran erupted on February 28.

Trump claimed that Iran's ability to launch missile and drone strikes had been "dramatically curtailed" and its "weapons factories and rocket launchers are being blown to pieces - very few of them left". The US president also claimed that Washington is "winning bigger than ever before."