JUST IN: For Iran’s new supreme leader, ‘revenge’ for his father is ‘inevitable’
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“Revenge” is “inevitable.” This is what Iranian Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei said this Saturday after the death of his father, killed in Israeli-American bombings on the first day of the war, and new exchanges of strikes this week despite the signing of a memorandum of understanding. The Ayatollah spoke for the first time since the funeral of his father and predecessor, Ali Khamenei, which ended with his burial on Thursday. “I tell our martyr guide that we swear to avenge his pure blood and that of all the martyrs of these two wars, shed by criminal and dishonorable assassins,” writes Mojtaba Khamenei, appointed in March but who has not appeared in public since. “This revenge is the will of our nation and it must be accomplished, inevitably. »Trump continues to brandish the threat of strikes “These criminals, whose names appear on a list, will take to their grave the wish of a peaceful death in their bed,” he added. On Friday, Donald Trump accused Iran of wanting to assassinate him, returning to his martial tone by once again promising to annihilate him. “The orders have already been given, and the US military is ready, willing and able, for a period of one year, which may be extended, to decimate and completely destroy all areas of Iran,” the US president wrote on Truth Social. He added that “1,000 missiles are ready to fire and aimed at the Islamic Republic of Iran,” with “thousands more” on hand. The United States struck Iran two consecutive nights starting Tuesday after blaming Tehran for attacks on three commercial ships in the strategic Strait of Hormuz. According to the Iranian Ministry of Health, 17 Iranians were killed and 115 injured. Negotiations in the hot seat If Washington claims to have targeted military targets, Tehran accuses it of having also hit civilian infrastructure in order to prevent Iranians from going to Khamenei’s funeral. Iran, for its part, targeted its Gulf neighbors: Kuwait, where at least one person was injured, Bahrain and Qatar. The head of the Supreme National Security Council, Mohammad Bagher Zolghadr, warned that Iran would retaliate “for any attack” on its infrastructure, including by attacking Israel. Donald Trump agreed to continue discussions, although he claimed that the ceasefire was “over”. Tehran considers that it has kept the commitments made on June 17, with Abbas Araghchi writing on X Saturday that his country had “kept its word”. “No negotiations will take place until the American side has reviewed its positions,” a source close to Iranian negotiators told the Fars news agency, for whom it is necessary to resolve “the question of transit through the strait.” [d’Ormuz] according to the terms desired by Iran.
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Source: This article was originally published by 20Minutes – Actu Monde and adapted for our international English-speaking audience.
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