US EditionIran's Supreme Leader Says Enemies' 'Security Must Be Taken Away' After Intelligence Minister's Killing
Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei urged removal of security from enemies after Israel killed Iran’s Intelligence Minister, amid a war causing over 1,300 Iranian deaths, officials said.
- On Friday, Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei called for Iran's enemies to lose their security in a statement sent to President Masoud Pezeshkian after Israel killed Intelligence Minister Esmail Khatib.
- Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei succeeded his father after an Israeli airstrike on Feb. 28 and has not been publicly seen amid strikes around Tehran and ongoing wartime exchanges.
- Attacks on Gulf energy infrastructure and the South Pars gas field threatened Iran's power supplies, with natural gas providing about 80% of electricity and Brent crude rising above $119 a barrel.
- Heavy explosions shook Dubai as air defenses intercepted incoming fire during Eid al-Fitr, and the war has killed more than 1,300 people in Iran while Lebanon's death toll topped 1,000 on Thursday.
- Gen. Ali Mohammad Naeini said Iran will keep producing missiles even during war conditions and Iran broadened attacks to Syria and Gulf energy sites in response to strikes on Druze populations in Sweida.
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Iran's new Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, has called for the "security" of enemy nations to be stripped, delivering his latest message to the public. Khamenei made the comments in a statement issued on his behalf to President Masoud Pezeshkian after Israel killed Intelligence Minister Esmail Khatib. He said the ministry must respond by revoking the security of Iran's "internal and external enemies." Trump and Netanyahu clash over se…
Leader hails martyred intel minister, calls for increased efforts to protect Iran
New Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Mojtaba Khamenei has issued a message of condolence to President Masoud Pezeshkian following the US-Israeli assassination of Intelligence Minister Ismail Khatib.
Iran supreme leader calls for ‘security' to be taken from enemies
The spokesman for Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard insisted Friday that Tehran was still building missiles, seeking to counter a claim by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that it no longer could. Gen. Ali Mohammad Naeini also said the Iran war would go on. A short time later, Iranian state television reported Naeini was killed in an airstrike. “These people expect the war to continue until the enemy is completely exhausted,” the …
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