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🗞️ Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei responded Tuesday to President Donald Trump’s threats aboard Air Force One, as the second round of indirect U.S.–Iran nuclear talks concluded in Geneva, mediated by Oman.
Trump had said Iran “wants to make a deal” and “I don’t think they want the consequences of not making a deal,” while referencing U.S. military power and previous attack on Iran using B-2 bombers.
Khamenei pushed back this morning, defending Iran’s nuclear program as peaceful and a national right, and rejecting U.S. demands to limit missile ranges. He warned that even the “strongest military force in the world may at times be struck so hard that it cannot get up again,” adding that while a warship is dangerous, “more dangerous than that warship is the weapon that can send that warship to the bottom of the sea.”
Khamenei described U.S. pressure as evidence of imperial decline, declaring: “A sign of the decline of the corrupt, oppressive U.S. empire is its irrationality, such as interfering in other countries’ internal affairs. They say, limit your missiles to this range. What’s that to do with you? Without deterrent weaponry, a country will be crushed by the enemy.” He added that Washington has failed to eliminate the Islamic Republic for 47 years and that Trump also “will not be able to do this.”
The exchange comes as open-source flight trackers show 36 F-16s and 12 F-22s repositioning toward U.S. bases in the Middle East, alongside two aircraft carriers already in the region—underscoring the massive U.S. military buildup surrounding the negotiations.
