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Top Iranian official pushes back on Trump’s threat to escalate strikes on Iran if the Islamic Republic shuts down Strait of Hormuz, warning that the American president could be eliminated.
By World Israel News Staff
A senior Iranian official pushed back on President Donald Trump’s warning that the United States could escalate attacks on Iran if the Islamic Republic attempts to close the Strait of Hormuz, issuing a veiled threat against the American commander in chief.
On Tuesday, Ali Larijani, the secretary of the Supreme National Security Council who is widely believed to have served as Iran’s de facto head of state since the targeted killing of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on February 28, took to social media to respond to comments by President Trump a day earlier.
Writing on X, Larijani posted a screenshot of recent comments by Trump on the Truth Social platform, warning that if Iran tries to shut down the Strait of Hormuz, US attacks on Iran would increase twentyfold.
“We will take out easily destroyable targets that will make it virtually impossible for Iran to ever be built back, as a Nation, again – Death, Fire, and Fury will reign upon them,” Trump wrote.
Larijani fired back that Iran does not take Trump’s “hollow threats” seriously, while hinting that the president himself could be assassinated.
“The Iranian people do not fear your hollow threats,” Larijani wrote. “Those greater than you failed to erase them. So, beware lest it is you who are eliminated.”
“Strait of Hormuz will either be a Strait of peace and prosperity for all or will be a Strait of defeat and suffering for warmongers.”
On Friday, a federal jury in New York City convicted a Pakistani national working for Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps of attempting to hire assassins to kill Trump in 2024 in retaliation for the killing of an IRGC general in 2020.
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