Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said the United States in particular would face severe damage to its interests if any strike were carried out against Iran’s nuclear sites.

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Ayatollah Ali Khamenei Threatens Retaliation Against Attack

The administration has signaled to Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, that closing the Strait of Hormuz is a “red line” that would provoke a response, officials said.

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U.S. Warns Top Iran Leader Not to Shut Strait of Hormuz

TEHRAN — Iran’s supreme leader on Saturday denounced allegations by the United States of an Iranian plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to Washington, suggesting they were a pretext for further building an international consensus against Iran, state media reported . “They attempted to find an excuse by raising a meaningless and useless accusation against some Iranian nationals in America,” Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said, speaking in the western province of Kermanshah, where he is on a 10-day official visit. Read full article > >

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Iran supreme leader: U.S. allegations of plot to kill Saudi envoy ‘meaningless’

TEHRAN – Apparently bowing to unprecedented pressure from Iran’s clerical establishment, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad welcomed an intelligence minister he had ousted in April back into his cabinet meeting on Sunday. While Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei had publicly reinstated intelligence minister Heydar Moslehi following his dismissal by Ahmadinejad, it took more than three weeks for the two men to officially meet in a cabinet session. Following the supreme leader’s decision, Ahmadinejad did not go to his office for eight days. He returned to work a week ago, publicly pledging his allegiance to Khamenei and denying that a rift had developed between the two men. But when the cabinet met on Wednesday, the president and Moslehi apparently avoided being in the same room, Web sites reported, citing “busy schedules” as their reason for not meeting. Read full article > >

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Iran’s Ahmadinejad affirms Khamenei decision, tensions remain

Although he didn’t show much mercy to his opponents in the ring, boxing legend Muhammad Ali has made a desperate plea to Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, to release two Americans who have been held since July 2009 on suspicion of…

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