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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) \u2014 Iran’s supreme leader said Thursday that the Islamic Republic will protect its \u201cnuclear and missile capabilities\u201d as a national asset, likely seeking to draw a hard line as U.S. President Donald Trump presses for a wider deal<\/a> to cement the war’s shaky three-week ceasefire.<\/p>\n

Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei maintained the defiant tone he has struck since taking over as supreme leader following the killing of his father in the war’s opening airstrikes. In a written statement read by a state television anchor, Khamenei \u2014 who has not been seen in public since becoming supreme leader \u2014 said the only place Americans belonged in the Persian Gulf is \u201cat the bottom of its waters” and that a \u201cnew chapter\u201d was being written in the region’s history.<\/p>\n

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