Iran’s Leader Threatens New Fronts in US-Israel War
Mojtaba Khamenei doubled down on his retaliation campaign against the US, Israel and their allies.
Iran’s new supreme leader on Thursday rejected US threats of a widening war and its calls for his nation’s “unconditional surrender.” Instead, Mojtaba Khamenei doubled down on the Islamic Republic’s retaliation campaign against American allies around the Gulf and pledged to keep the Strait of Hormuz effectively shut.
In his first public comments since succeeding his father, who was killed in a targeted strike by the US and Israel at the outset of the war, Khamenei warned that Tehran will look to open other fronts if the US and Israel persist in their bombing campaign. Almost 2,000 people in Iran and Lebanon have been killed since the war began, while dozens across the Persian Gulf also have died.