"Iran's supreme leader accuses the US of aiming to seize his country's oil and natural gas resources. Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has warned the United States that any attack on his country would result in a regional war as US President Donald Trump amasses military assets in the Middle East. They should know that if they start a war this time, it will be a regional war, the supreme leader was quoted as saying by Iranian state news agencies on Sunday."
"The 86-year-old leader was speaking on the anniversary of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's return from exile to Iran in 1979, a pivotal moment that led to the Iranian Revolution and put an end to Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi's monarchy. Khamenei's comments came as the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier, jet fighters and navy destroyers neared the region after nationwide antigovernment protests in Iran, in which thousands of people were killed in January."
Ali Khamenei accused the United States of seeking to seize Iran's oil and natural gas and warned that any US attack would ignite a regional war. He made the remarks during the anniversary of Ayatollah Khomeini's 1979 return from exile. The warning coincided with the USS Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group, jet fighters and destroyers approaching the region amid domestic unrest. Nationwide antigovernment protests began in late December over the rial's collapse and escalated into a direct challenge to Khamenei's rule; Iranian authorities called the unrest a foreign-instigated coup that was suppressed. State and activist death tolls differ sharply.
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