{"id":201413,"date":"2026-07-11T14:37:27","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T14:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/201413\/"},"modified":"2026-07-11T14:37:27","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T14:37:27","slug":"irans-supreme-leader-vows-revenge-following-trumps-1000-missiles-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/201413\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran\u2019s Supreme Leader Vows Revenge Following Trump\u2019s \u20181,000 Missiles\u2019 Threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Topline<\/p>\n<p class=\"topline-summary\">Iranian Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei vowed to take revenge against the U.S. on Saturday for his father\u2019s assassination, making the remarks after President Donald Trump threatened to \u201ccompletely decimate and destroy all areas of Iran\u201d as relations between the U.S. and Iran have deteriorated just weeks after a temporary peace deal was signed.<\/p>\n<p>People raise fists at a farewell ceremony for Iran&#8217;s late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on July 4, 2026 in Tehran, Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Photo by Majid Saeedi\/Getty ImagesKey Facts<\/p>\n<p class=\"timeline-fact\">Khamenei said \u201crevenge is the demand\u201d of Iran and that it will be carried out against \u201ccriminals, whose names are known from top to bottom,\u201d though he did not explicitly name Trump in the statement, according to <a class=\"color-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2026\/07\/11\/iran-trump-revenge-assassination?utm_campaign=mrf-utm_campaign=editorial&amp;utm_source=x&amp;utm_medium=owned_social&amp;utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;mrfcid=202607116a4733c24486741cce89311d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-ga-track=\"ExternalLink:https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2026\/07\/11\/iran-trump-revenge-assassination?utm_campaign=mrf-utm_campaign=editorial&amp;utm_source=x&amp;utm_medium=owned_social&amp;utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;mrfcid=202607116a4733c24486741cce89311d\" aria-label=\"Axios\">Axios<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"timeline-fact\">Trump said in a Truth Social post Friday night the U.S. has \u201c1,000 missiles\u201d aimed at Iran, \u201cwith thousands of more to immediately follow\u201d if the Iranian government assassinates or attempts to assassinate him.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story. Check back for updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Topline Iranian Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei vowed to take revenge against the U.S. on Saturday for his father\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":201414,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[102,34,179,2928,81,1219,5841,392,36],"class_list":["post-201413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-iran","tag-hormuz","tag-iran","tag-military","tag-missile","tag-politics","tag-strait","tag-supreme","tag-trump","tag-war"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116901854763956598","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}