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Iran has warned the US and Israel against launching any fresh attacks as the country gears up to bury its slain Supreme Leader.

Getting into it: The warning came from Ali Abdollahi, commander of the Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters, in a statement carried by Iranian state media on Thursday. He said, “We warn the enemies of Iran, especially the U.S. and the Zionist regime, to avoid any miscalculation and to think about the harsh retaliation our armed forces would make to any threat and aggression against our country.”

The processions start July 4 in Tehran and run through July 9, when Khamenei goes into the ground in his hometown of Mashhad. Qom and Iraq host their own ceremonies in the days between. Iran expects massive crowds and has ramped up security. The country’s Civil Aviation Organization said it would temporarily close airspace over a handful of cities, Tehran and Mashhad among them.

Abdollahi wasn’t the only one making threats this week. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said Wednesday that Tehran would hit back immediately and powerfully against any threat to its people or leadership, after Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said Iran’s current Supreme Leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, was “marked for death.”

Behind the tough talk, both sides have been at the table. Recent talks in Doha focused on reopening the Strait of Hormuz, the waterway carrying roughly 20 percent of the world’s oil and gas, and on winding down hostilities. Washington sent special envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law, to handle its side. The pair touched down in Qatar on Tuesday for meetings with mediators, but the two governments never sat across from each other directly. Qatar’s foreign ministry said the sit-downs notched “positive progress” on the interim deal.

Vice President Vance said Wednesday the talks were “going well” but added the US is ready to start hitting Iran again if it keeps going after commercial ships in the strait and won’t drop its nuclear work. “The President’s not going to send our military back in unless he has to,” Vance told reporters.

This all comes as Trump and Vance wave off the idea that full-blown fighting is coming back, with the president calling the recent Qatar discussions “very good meetings” and saying the “denuclearization of Iran is moving along well.”