Iran's supreme leader threatens Israel and US with 'a crushing response' over Israeli attack

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — 

Iran's ultimate person connected Saturday threatened Israel and the U.S. with "a crushing response" implicit attacks connected Iran and its allies.

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei spoke arsenic Iranian officials are progressively threatening to motorboat yet different onslaught against Israel aft its October 26 connected the Islamic Republic that targeted subject bases and different locations and killed astatine slightest 5 people.

Any further attacks from either broadside could engulf the wider Middle East, already teetering implicit the Israel-Hamas warfare successful the Gaza Strip and Israel's crushed penetration of Lebanon, into a wider determination struggle conscionable caput of the U.S. statesmanlike predetermination this Tuesday.

"The enemies, whether the Zionist authorities oregon the United States of America, volition decidedly person a crushing effect to what they are doing to Iran and the Iranian federation and to the absorption front," Khamenei said successful video released by Iranian authorities media.

The ultimate person did not elaborate connected the timing of the threatened attack, nor the scope. The U.S. subject operates passim the Middle East, with immoderate troops present manning a Terminal High Altitude Area Defense, oregon THAAD, artillery successful Israel.

The 85-year-old Khamenei had struck a much cautious attack successful earlier remarks, saying officials would measurement Iran's effect and that Israel's onslaught "should not beryllium exaggerated nor downplayed."

Khamenei connected Saturday met with assemblage students to people Students Day, which commemorates a November 4, 1978, incidental successful which Iranian soldiers opened occurrence connected students protesting the regularisation of the shah astatine Tehran University. The shooting killed and wounded respective students and further escalated the tensions consuming Iran astatine the clip that yet led to the shah fleeing the state and the 1979 Islamic Revolution.

The assemblage offered a raucous invited to Khamenei, chanting: "The humor successful our veins is simply a acquisition to our leader!" Some besides made a manus motion fixed by the slain Hezbollah person Hassan Nasrallah successful 2020 successful a code successful which helium threatened that American troops would "return successful coffins."

Iran volition people the 45th day of the U.S. Embassy hostage situation this Sunday, pursuing the Persian calendar. The November 4, 1979, storming of the embassy by Islamist students led to the 444-day crisis, which cemented the decades-long enmity betwixt Tehran and Washington that persists today.