{"id":97764,"date":"2026-01-19T12:07:44","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T07:07:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=97764"},"modified":"2026-01-19T12:07:44","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T07:07:44","slug":"iran-warns-us-attack-on-supreme-leader-equals-all-out-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/iran-warns-us-attack-on-supreme-leader-equals-all-out-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran warns US: Attack on supreme leader equals all-out war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TEHRAN: <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/us-warns-iran-all-options-on-table-tehran-hits-back-at-un\/\">Iran<\/a> has warned the United States that it will consider any attack on Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as a cause for all-out war.<\/p>\n<p>Iranian President Masoud Peshmerga said in a statement on the social networking site X (formerly Twitter) that Iran will respond harshly and regrettably to any unjust aggression.<\/p>\n<p>He said that an attack on the Supreme Leader would in fact be a declaration of all-out war against Iran.<\/p>\n<p>The statement came after recent statements by US President Donald Trump, who had strongly warned of a crackdown on protesters in Iran and possible executions.<\/p>\n<p>Trump said in an interview with Politico on Saturday that \u201cit is time to bring new leadership to Iran,\u201d to which the Iranian leadership reacted strongly.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, the Iranian president blamed the United States and its allies for the ongoing economic crisis in the country and said that long-standing sanctions and hostility have increased the hardships of the Iranian people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEHRAN: Iran has warned the United States that it will consider any attack on Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as a cause for all-out war. Iranian President Masoud Peshmerga said in a statement on the social networking site X (formerly Twitter) that Iran will respond harshly and regrettably to any unjust aggression. He said that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":96292,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,3],"tags":[396,5999,182],"class_list":["post-97764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-world","tag-iran","tag-tehran","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97764"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97766,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97764\/revisions\/97766"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}