During an address on the Persian New Year, Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei responded to President Donald Trump’s recent threats to attack Iran.
He said on Thursday, “The US and others must know that if they commit any malicious act against the Iranian nation, they will receive a severe blow.” Trump has threatened Iran multiple times in recent weeks.
“Let nobody be fooled! The hundreds of attacks being made by Houthi, the sinister mobsters and thugs based in Yemen, who are hated by the Yemeni people, all emanate from, and are created by, IRAN. Any further attack or retaliation by the ‘Houthis’ will be met with great force, and there is no guarantee that that force will stop there,” Trump wrote on Truth Social earlier this week.
Khamenei argued that Tehran does not control the Houthis, also known by their formal title Ansar Allah. “Why do you label them as proxies? The people of Yemen and the Resistance centers in the region have an inner motive to stand against the Zionists, and the Islamic Republic of Iran does not need proxies. Our stance is clear, and so is theirs,” he explained.
Additionally, Trump sent a letter to Khamenei urging Tehran to agree to a new nuclear deal within two months. Axios reporter Barak Ravid wrote that if Iran does not negotiate, “the chances of US or Israeli military action against Iran’s nuclear facilities would dramatically increase.”
Khamenei rejected talks with Trump because he destroyed the 2015 Iran nuclear deal during his first administration. “So why do we refuse to negotiate? This same person tore up the JCPOA,” he said last week. “How can we negotiate with this person? In negotiations, one must be sure that the other party will fulfill their commitments. When we know that they will not keep their word, what’s the point?”
The Ayatollah doubled down on that position during Thursday’s speech, saying, “The US must know that when facing Iran, threats will never achieve anything.”
Prior to Trump’s second term, Axios reported that military action against Iran’s nuclear facilities would be a “real possibility” under the new administration. The Pentagon is currently updating its war plans for Iran, and top US and Israeli officials are meeting this week to discuss what will happen if Tehran does not come to an agreement.
Kyle Anzalone is the opinion editor of Antiwar.com and news editor of the Libertarian Institute. He hosts The Kyle Anzalone Show and is co-host of Conflicts of Interest with Connor Freeman.
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I remember Trump as far back as the 1980s. He had a haughty and belligerent mouth back then and still does today.
The Pentagon is currently updating its war plans for Iran, and top US and Israeli officials are meeting this week to discuss what will happen if Tehran does not come to an agreement.
Iran is obliged to agree to something even more stringent than the JCPOA, the NPT on steroids, or else the US and Israel will have to attack them. It matters not the Israel refused to even sign the lightweight NPT and has up to several hundred "secret" nukes of their own. Which means the US shouldn't even be selling weapons to Israel let alone planning an attack with them on someone Israel should be forced to emulate when it comes to transparency of one's nuclear program.
… and get Gaddafi'd to top it off.
My take is that that's exactly what Iran has been preparing for all these last many decades and now, as demonstrated by True Promise 1 & 2 operations, as well as the mysterious "earthquake" (nuclear test), they're ready for full war. The fact that rag-tag Yemen can actually hurt both Israel and the US "gunboats" implies that much larger and much more heavily armed Iran can of course do massive much more damage, essentially destroying all US bases in the region almost overnight and cutting the Hormuz Strait as well, while simultaneously destroying the precarious infrastructure of tiny beach head Israel. It's even possible that they can march through a suddenly rebellious Iraq, Jordan and Syria all the way to Lebanon and Gallilee, as it's very clear that most of the locals will at least passively support them (taking the moral upper ground is half way to victory and Iran and allies have done exactly that).
As for Israel, I think they have less than 20 nuclear warheads, 16 probably. All the rest is propaganda.
Oh, PLEASE don't throw me into the briar patch! PLEASE!!!
"military action against Iran’s nuclear facilities"
The Pentagon doesn't know where all of Iran's nuclear facilities are located. One can store a nuclear warhead in a car garage. The USA would lose a war with Iran, which why it's always just talk, but Trump may be a fool.
Irony?…!…?
Ayatollah: “The US must know that when facing Iran, threats will never achieve anything.”
Trump: Bark-bark-bark!
Ayatollah: Sigh!
Beware the ides of march…
Nothing new:
October 24, 2013: New York – During a panel at Yeshiva University on Tuesday evening, Sheldon Adelson, noted business man owner of the Newspaper Israel Hayom, suggested that the US should use nuclear weapons on Iran to impose its demands from a position of strength. (The Jerusalem Post, Maya Shwayder, October 24, 2013)
At the same time, the couple [Sheldon and Miriam] served as the largest donors to Trump's presidential campaigns and to the Republican party, sending approximately $600 million in reported political contributions to support Trump's three presidential campaigns as well as other Republican congressional and gubernatorial race since 2015. (Responsible Statecraft, Eli Clifton, March 18, 2025)
They blew all that money? That was stupid. In my dreams for one I would own a big farm.
Yes… Iran can defend itself unlike Gazans, Lebanese and Syrians…!
I like his Woodstock version better. But still, thanks.
Russia needs to base Russian controlled nukes and air defenses in Iran asap.
End the mad posturing by Israel and Trump.
All I know and see at this point is that Trump is turning more and more into a bully dictator.
Trump's win was a reaction to the Left's (Klaus Schwab's) globalist tyrannical agenda. it was replaced by a strong man.
Trump's delusion that he is the savior of America and the world is very dangerous.
Trump is into Totalism.
Seems like every president wins on a message of benevolent change that the populace foolishly believes…
Yes, and they are doing it again. Now Bernie Sanders gets huge crowds again, despite the fact that the Dem party betrayed him twice and he took the money and left his supporters in the dust. somehow they think he will be another savior again.
Russia will not do that.
Israel and the USA seem to be looking for an electrical outlet they can stick a metal fork into. Somewhere along the line they are going to get JOLTED!
If Iran has the bomb maybe they should air test one immediately in order to prevent a war.
That is a big If at this point.