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The Iranian supreme chief, the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, made these remarks during a ceremony marking the first anniversary of the death of the former Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi, died in a helicopter accident in northern Iran last year, in Tehran, Iran, on May 20, 2025.
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On Wednesday, the supreme head of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, threatened the United States with “irreparable damage” if Washington follows a military strike against the country of the Middle East.
“Any American military entry will undoubtedly be affected by irreparable damage,” said Khamenei, according to NBC News Reporting. He added that the potential participation of America in Iran “will turn around 100%” and that “the damage they undergo will be much worse than all that Iran could be confronted. If they enter militarily, they will harm not to recover”.
CNBC contacted the White House to comment.
Iran and Tehran have exchanged missile fires since the Jewish state launched an attack on Iran on Friday, saying that it mainly aimed at the Iranian nuclear program. The International Atomic Energy Agency on Wednesday said Two nuclear centrifugal production facilities in Iran were affected.
Trump warned the patience of the United States on Tuesday – a historically close ally and a supplier of weapons from Israel – was “thin”, noting that Khamenei is an “easy target”.
“We are not going to get him out (kill!), At least not for the moment,” wrote Trump on his Truth social media platform, stressing that the White House does not want missiles “fired on civilians or American soldiers” but nevertheless aims for “the unconditional surrender of Tehran!”
Khamenei resisted this notion on Wednesday, saying “the Iranian people is not a people who can be forced to go”.
Under Trump’s second administration, the White House tried to negotiate an agreement on the Iranian nuclear program, with talks so far to bear fruit. Washington previously insisted that he was not directly involved in hostilities, but Trump’s latest comments have delighted speculation about a change of strategy – and a direct American military attack against Iranian sites.
“From the start, it was suspected that America was involved, and now, with the words of their own civil servants, this suspicion becomes stronger,” said Khamenei.
Tensions between the two historic enemies of the Middle East have been raised since the October 2023 attack on Israeli territory led by the Palestinian militant group supported by Iran Hamas. Israel has since accused Iran of offensive companies by its network of regional allies which also include Houthi groups in Lebanon and Yemen. Tehran denies his participation.
In the midst of current fire exchanges, the Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said in a Social media update This “tornado passes over Tehran” and “this is how dictatorships collapse”.
Earlier in the week, the leaders of the World Group of Seven (G7) the most advanced savings had labeled Iran is a “main source of regional instability and terror” in the Middle East and has jointly led to a “broader de-escalation of hostilities”. Speaking on the sidelines of the G7 summit, the German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said that Israel was doing “the dirty work” for the Western world, according to Google Translated comments transported by the German point of sale ZDF.
The markets have masked developments in the conflict, which threatens to wrap the wider region of the Middle East rich in oil and led investors to fixed assets, such as gold.
