Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei makes the comments during a ceremony that marks the first birthday of the death of former Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, who died last year in a helicopter crash in Noord -Ian, in Tehran, Iran, on 20 May 2025.
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The supreme leader of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, threatened the US on Wednesday with “irreparable damage” when Washington follows a military strike against the country in the middle.
“Every American military entry will undoubtedly get irreparable damage,” said Khamenei, according to NBC News Reporting. He added that the potential involvement of America in Iran will “have 100% counterproductive” and that “the damage they suffer will be much worse than everything Iran stands for. If they come in militarily, they will experience damage that they cannot repair from.”
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Iran and Tehran have been racing rocket fire since the Jewish state launched an attack on Iran on Friday and said that it was mainly focused on the Iranian nuclear program. The International Atomic Energy Agency on Wednesday said that two nuclear centrifuge production facilities were hit in Iran.
On Tuesday, Trump warned the patience of the US – a historically narrow ally and arms provider of Israel – wore “Dun” and noticed that Khamenei is an “easy target”.
“We are not going to take him out (killing!), At least not for now,” Trump wrote on his truth platform for the truth, and emphasizes that the White House does not want rockets “on civilians, or American soldiers”, but is nevertheless aimed at the “unconditional surrender of Tehran”! “
Khamenei opposed the idea on Wednesday and said, “The Iranian people are not a people who can be forced to surrender.”
Under Trump's second government, the White House has tried to close a deal about the nuclear program of Iran, with conversations so far to bear fruit. Washington has previously insisted that it was not directly involved in the hostilities, but Trump's latest comments started speculation about a change in strategy – and a potential direct American military attack in Iranian locations.
“From the start it was suspected that America was involved, and now, with the words of their own officials, this suspicion is becoming stronger,” said Khamei.
The tensions between the two historical enemies in the Middle East have been high since the October 2023 attack on Israeli territory carried out by the Iran-supported Palestinian militant group of Hamas. Israel has since accused Iran of offensives that have been undertaken through his network of regional allies who also include the Houthi groups of Lebanon and Yemen. Tehran denies involvement.
In the midst of the current fire brigade fairs, the Israeli defense minister Israel Katz said on Wednesday in a Google-translated social media update that “passes a Tornado Tehran” and “This is how dictators collapse.”
Earlier in the week, leaders of the world group of seven (G7) most advanced economies Iran had labeled a “main source of regional instability and terror” in the Middle East and jointly called for “broader de-escalation of hostilities” regionally. Speaking on the sidelines of the G7 top, Chancellor Friedrich Merz of Germany said that Israel does “the dirty work” for the Western world, according to Google-Praigned comments from the German Outlet ZDF.
Markets have eagerly looked at developments in the conflict, which are in danger of surrendering the wider oil-rich Middle East and have driven investors to assets for safe haven, such as gold.
