President of Iran, warning to Donald Trump: “An attack against Khamenei is equivalent to a total war against the nation”
Iranian President Massoud Pezeshkian threatened on Sunday that any attack targeting Iran's supreme leader Ali Khamenei, who holds power in Iran, would be a declaration of war.
Ali Khamenei PHOTO: Profimedia
“The time has come to look for a new leader“, Donald Trump told the Politico website.
“An attack against the supreme leader of our country is equivalent to a total war against the Iranian nation”, warns X, in Persian, Massoud Pezeshkian, News writes.
“This man is a sick man, who should lead his country properly and stop killing people”, Trump said.
Ali Khamenei, 86, has been in power since 1989.
While Trump has not made a decision on whether to attack Iran, he has called for military resources to be available should he order a large-scale strike, they said.
“The president and his team have communicated to the Iranian regime that if the massacres continue, there will be serious consequences”White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters on Thursday, stressing that only a small group of advisers have access to information about what the American leader has in mind
