{"id":170989,"date":"2025-06-27T09:07:29","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T13:07:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=170989"},"modified":"2025-06-27T09:07:29","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T13:07:29","slug":"ayatollah-delivers-stern-warning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=170989","title":{"rendered":"Ayatollah Delivers Stern Warning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-170990 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Ayatollah.jpg?resize=300%2C225&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Ayatollah.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Ayatollah.jpg?resize=444%2C333&amp;ssl=1 444w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Ayatollah.jpg?resize=400%2C300&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Ayatollah.jpg?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Ayatollah Ali Khamenei<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>Iran\u2019s supreme leader resurfaces to warn against future US attacks<\/h3>\n<p><strong>By Farnoush Amiri, The Associated Press and David Rising, The Associated Press<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>DUBAI, United Arab Emirates \u2014 Iran\u2019s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Thursday his country had delivered a \u201cslap to America\u2019s face\u201d with its strike on a U.S. airbase in Qatar, and warned against any further attacks in his first public comments since a ceasefire was declared with Israel after 12 days of war.<\/p>\n<p>Khamenei spoke in a recorded video broadcast on Iranian state television, his first appearance since June 19. The 86-year-old, a skilled orator known for his forceful addresses to the country\u2019s more than 90 million people, appeared and sounded more tired than he had just a week ago, speaking in a hoarse voice and occasionally stumbling over his words.<\/p>\n<p>The speech, which went on for more than 10 minutes, was filled with warnings and threats directed toward the United States and Israel, the Islamic Republic\u2019s longtime adversaries.<\/p>\n<p>The speech, which went on for more than 10 minutes, was filled with warnings and threats directed toward the United States and Israel, the Islamic Republic\u2019s longtime adversaries.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2025\/06\/26\/irans-supreme-leader-resurfaces-to-warn-against-future-us-attacks\/\">Defense News<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The US forcing Middle East regime change hasn&#8217;t worked out well at all, from a failed state in Libya up to the Afghan disaster and maybe call Iraq a wash- replacing Sadam with something marginally better. Trump apparently feels the juice isn&#8217;t worth the squeeze and is happy to let the Iranians deal with Iran. I fail to see the downside of this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ayatollah Ali Khamenei Iran\u2019s supreme leader resurfaces to warn against future US attacks By Farnoush Amiri, The Associated Press and David Rising, The Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates \u2014 Iran\u2019s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Thursday his country had delivered a \u201cslap to America\u2019s face\u201d with its strike on a U.S. airbase in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":170990,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[308,650],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-iran","category-points-and-laughs"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Ayatollah.jpg?fit=600%2C450&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-ItT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=170989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/170990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=170989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=170989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=170989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}