Iran’s supreme chief, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said on Monday that the United States would receive a blow if he acts on President Donald Trump’s threat to bombing Tehran unless he reaches a new nuclear agreement with Washington.
Trump reiterated his threat on Sunday that Iran would be bombed if he does not accept his offer for talks described in a letter sent to the management of Iran in early March, giving Tehran a two -month window to make a decision.
“The enmity of the United States and Israel has always been there. They threaten to attack us, which we do not think very likely, but if they commit a mischief, they will surely receive a strong mutual blow,” said Khamenei.
“And if they plan to provoke a sedition within the country as in recent years, the Iranian people themselves will take care of them,” he added.
The Iranian authorities blame the West for recent disorders, including the demonstrations in 2022-2023 against the death of Mahsa Amini, a young woman detained for having allegedly flouted the rules of the hijab, and national demonstrations in 2019 on fuel prices.
Last week, Iran responded to the American letter, President Masoud Pezeshkian explained on Sunday that Tehran will not enter the direct negotiations with Washington but was willing to continue the talks indirectly in accordance with an injunction in Khamenei.
“An open threat of” bombing “by a head of state against Iran is a shocking affront to the very essence of international peace and security,” the spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Esmaeil Baghaei on Monday.
“Violence generates violence, peace generates peace. The United States can choose the course and concede to the consequences. “
During his first quarter of 2017-21, Trump withdrew the United States from a 2015 agreement between Iran and the world powers which set strict limits on the disputed nuclear activities of Tehran in exchange for the relief of the sanctions. Trump has also reprinted American scanning sanctions.
Since then, Iran has far exceeded the limits of this agreement on the enrichment of uranium.
Western powers accuse Iran of having a clandestine program of developing nuclear weapons capacity by enriching uranium at a high level of fissile purity, above what they say they are justifiable for a civil atomic energy program. Tehran says that his nuclear program is entirely for civil energy purposes.
