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This handout picture released by the office of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei shows him addressing the crowd during a meeting with the head of the judiciary and other officials in Tehran on July 16, 2025. ©Khamenei.ir / AFP
Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, warned on Sunday of a "regional war" if the United States attacked following heavy military deployments by Washington in the Gulf.
"The Americans should know that if they start a war, this time it will be a regional war," Khamenei was quoted as saying by the Tasnim news agency.
Khamenei also declared that recent anti-government protests that saw killings and vandalism were akin to "a coup."
"They (rioters) attacked the police, government centers, IRGC centers, banks, and mosques, and burned the Koran... It was like a coup," Khamenei said, according to the Tasnim news agency, adding that "the coup was suppressed."
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