Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei will make a speech at a ceremony in northern Iran on May 20, 2025, commemorating the one-year anniversary of the death of former Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi, who died in a helicopter crash in Iran, northern Iran last year.
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Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Wednesday threatened the US with “irreparable damage” if Washington continues its military attacks on the Middle Eastern nation.
“American military entry will undoubtedly encounter irreparable damage,” Khamenei said, according to a report by NBC News. He added that the US’s potential involvement in Iran would be “100% backfire,” and that “the damage they suffer will be far worse than what Iran could face.”
CNBC reached out to the White House for comment.
Iran and Tehran have been trading missile fires since the Jewish state launched an attack on Iran on Friday. Wednesday International Atomic Energy Agency I said Two nuclear centrifugal production facilities in Iran were attacked.
Trump on Tuesday warned that the patience of the US, Israel’s historically close allies and weapons providers, is “slimly worn,” pointing out that Khamenei is a “easy target.”
“We’re not going to take him (I’ll kill him!), or at least not for now,” Trump wrote on his true social media platform, stressing that the White House doesn’t want missiles “to be shot by civilians or American soldiers,” but still aims to “unconditionally surrender” Tehran.”
Khamenei resisted the concept on Wednesday, saying, “The Iranian people are not people who are forced to surrender.”
Under Trump’s second administration, the White House is trying to mediate a contract for Iran’s nuclear program, and so far it is still fruitful. Washington previously claimed it had not directly involved in hostilities, but Trump’s latest comments sparked speculation about a change in strategy and the possibility of a direct US attack on Iranian sites.
“From the beginning, I was suspected that America was involved, and now, in the words of my officials, this suspicion has become even stronger,” Khamenei said.
Tensions between the two historic Middle Eastern enemies have risen since the October 2023 attacks on Israeli territory were brought into effect by Iran-backed Palestinian extremist group Hamas. Israel has accused Iran of attacks made through a network of regional allies, including Lebanon’s Hezbollah and Yemen’s Hooti Group. Tehran denies involvement.
Amid ongoing firefighters, Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said on Wednesday that Google translated it Social Media Updates “A tornado passes Tehran” and “this is how the dictatorship collapses.”
Earlier this week, the world’s seven highly economies world leaders named Iran the “major source of regional instability and fear” in the Middle East, and jointly sought a regional “a wider break-up of hostility.” German Prime Minister Friedrich Merz, bystander at the G7 Summit, said Israel was doing “dirty work” in the Western world, Google translated comment Carry it by German outlet ZDF.
The market has been eagerly monitoring the development of conflicts that threaten to envelop the wider oil-rich Middle Eastern region and drive investors into safe assets such as gold.
