Iran has warned Donald Trump to \u201cbe careful not to be eliminated,\u201d issuing a stark assassination threat after the U.S. president said the country would be \u201chit 20 times harder\u201d if it attempted to block oil shipments through the Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ali Ardashir Larijani, secretary of Iran\u2019s Supreme National Security Council, responded with a strongly worded statement, declaring that Iran would not be intimidated by American threats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe Ashura nation of Iran is not afraid of your empty threats. Even those greater than you could not eliminate the Iranian nation. Be careful not to be eliminated,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The message was signed by the Supreme National Security Council of Iran<\/strong> in Tehran and dated March 19, 1404, noting it came ten days after the reported \u201cmartyrdom\u201d of Grand Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Larijani\u2019s warning came after Trump posted on Truth Social threatening \u201cdeath, fire and fury\u201d if Iran\u2019s leaders tried to disrupt oil traffic through the Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He wrote that the United States could strike targets that would make it \u201cvirtually impossible\u201d for Iran to rebuild as a nation, while expressing hope that such action would ultimately be avoided.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The escalating rhetoric follows a surge in global oil prices, which climbed above $100 per barrel as tensions intensified. Around 20 percent of the world\u2019s oil supply passes through the Strait of Hormuz, a critical maritime route linking the Persian Gulf to the open ocean.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Trump\u2019s post came ten days after coordinated U.S. and Israeli strikes against Iran that reportedly killed the country\u2019s leader, triggering a major conflict across the Middle East.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Despite the heightened tensions, Trump suggested in an earlier interview with CBS News that the war was \u201cpretty much complete.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI think the war is very complete. They have no navy, no communications, and no Air Force. Wrapping up is what\u2019s on my mind,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n However, the comments appeared to contradict statements from U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who reportedly described the conflict as \u201cjust the beginning.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n When asked about the contradiction during a press conference, Trump replied: \u201cYou could say both.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Meanwhile, Iran\u2019s Revolutionary Guard Corps pushed back against Trump\u2019s claims, stating simply: Iran has warned Donald Trump to \u201cbe careful not to be eliminated,\u201d issuing a stark assassination threat after the U.S. president said the country would be \u201chit… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":201,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yxnews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yxnews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yxnews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yxnews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yxnews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yxnews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32209,"href":"https:\/\/yxnews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32208\/revisions\/32209"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yxnews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yxnews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yxnews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yxnews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\u201cWe are the ones who will determine the end of the war.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"