Larijani threatens Trump with assassination: "Beware so that you are not eliminated!"

“Iran is not afraid of your empty threats. Even those greater than you could not eliminate the Iranian nation,” Larijani wrote in a post on X, according to multiple news reports.

He added: “Beware so that you are not eliminated yourself!” — a veiled warning aimed at Donald Trump after Trump threatened stronger action if Iran halted oil flow through the Strait of Hormuz. 

“If Iran does anything to stop the flow of oil through the Strait of Hormuz, the United States will strike them TWENTY TIMES HARDER than we have hit them so far,” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social.

The U.S. and Israel launched attacks on Iran on February 28, in which its supreme leader Ali Khamenei was killed, triggering a war that has spread across the Middle East.

Iran has responded with drone and missile attacks targeting Israel and countries throughout the region.

Shipping traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, which normally carries nearly 20 percent of the world’s crude oil, has been severely disrupted.

Iranian forces have threatened to block “the export of even a single liter of oil from the region” to allies of the U.S. and Israel for the duration of the war.