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Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has vowed to intensify attacks against Israel(REUTERS file) <\/p>\n
“The punishment continues. The Zionist enemy has made a grave mistake, committed a major crime; it must be punished\u2014and it is being punished. It is being punished right now,” read the Ayatollah’s official tweet.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Khamenei’s statement comes after the United States carried out \u2018Operation Midnight Hammer<\/a>\u2019 to target three nuclear sites in Iran – Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan.<\/p>\n Also Read: <\/strong>Where is Ayatollah Ali Khamenei? Iran’s Supreme leader names \u20183 successors\u2019 amid assassination scare<\/a><\/p>\n Speaking at the White House, US president Donald Trump stated that the decision to strike Iran was aimed at the \u201cdestruction of Iran\u2019s nuclear enrichment capacity and a stop to the nuclear threat posed by the world\u2019s number one state sponsor of terror.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n “Iran, the bully of the Middle East, <\/a>must now make peace. If they do not. Future attacks would be far greater and a lot easier,” Trump warned further.<\/p>\n Iran has accused the US of violating international law and the UN charter with its attack on Iranian facilities. Calling for an emergency UNSC meeting, Iran stated that it \u201creserves all options\u201d to defend itself after the attack from Washington. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n Also Read: <\/strong>Amid UN ceasefire talks, Israel warns of \u2018death sentence\u2019 if Tehran pursues nuclear ambitions<\/a><\/p>\n While Western allies such as Australia, UK and others have backed US attack on Iran, countries such as Russia, Turkey, China and Pakistan have slammed the Trump administration for striking Iran and inserting itself in the conflict between Israel and Iran.\u00a0<\/p>\n See Less <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jun 23, 2025 09:03 AM IST Taking to X, the official handle of the Iranian leader vowed to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":206887,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5311],"tags":[773,83129,74592,83128,83127,49,978,659],"class_list":{"0":"post-206886","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-ayatollah-ali-khamenei","9":"tag-iran-israel-wa","10":"tag-iran-israel","11":"tag-khamenei-on-us-attac","12":"tag-khamenei-reaction","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-us","15":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114730999803592734","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/story_trending@2x.png\" "\\"\\"\/")
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