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Iran has issued a stark warning to former U.S. President Donald Trump, advising him to “be careful not to be eliminated.” This came in response to Trump’s assertion that Iran’s newly appointed Supreme Leader might struggle to “live in peace.”
Trump recently urged Iran to prepare for “death, fire, and fury” due to their continued closure of the Strait of Hormuz. He also expressed discontent over Mojtaba Khamenei’s leadership, stating his belief that Khamenei would face challenges in maintaining peace.
Speaking on Fox News, Trump voiced his dissatisfaction with Khamenei’s appointment, suggesting that he had anticipated having more influence over Iran’s leadership decisions.
In response, Iran’s security chief, Ali Larijani, dismissed Trump’s remarks, labeling them as “empty threats.” He confidently stated that Iran remains unafraid of such rhetoric.
“Even those more powerful than you could not eliminate the Iranian nation,” Larijani retorted. “Take care of yourself not to be eliminated!”
The US President previously warned Iran their Supreme Leader would ‘not last long if he doesn’t get approval from us.
‘We want to make sure that we don’t have to go back every 10 years, when you don’t have a president like me that’s not going to do it.’
Mojtaba, 56, the second son of the late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was confirmed as the country’s new leader on Sunday after being appointed by the regime’s 88-person assembly.
Iran has warned Donald Trump to ‘be careful not to be eliminated’ after the US President said he did not believe the regime’s new Supreme Leader can ‘live in peace’
But the regime’s security chief Ali Larijani dismissed Mr Trump’s comments, claiming Iran ‘is not afraid of your empty threats’
The hardline cleric has close ties to the brutal Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corp and is viewed as even more extremist than his father.
The ‘vengeful’ leader is marked for assassination by Israel after it vowed to ‘eliminate’ whoever succeeded the slain Ayatollah, having killed him and Mojtaba’s wife Zahra Haddad-Adel in strikes on the first day of the conflict.
Mojtaba has already been wounded, with Iranian state TV reporting describing him as ‘janbaz’, or wounded by the enemy, in the ‘ Ramadan war,’ which is how media in Iran refer to the current conflict.
Mr Trump said Mojtaba’s appointment is ‘going to lead to just more of the same’, as he said he was aiming a new wave of deadly strikes at the regime after Tehran said not ‘one litre of oil’ would be shipped from the Middle East if attacks continue.
Iranians have also protested the appointment of the Ayatollah’s son by shouting ‘death to Mojtaba’ from their houses.
On Monday, Mr Trump he said the US had inflicted serious damage on Iran’s military and predicted the conflict would end well before the initial four-week time frame he had laid out, though he has not defined what victory would look like.
The president is under pressure as oil prices spike amid warnings of a global economic crisis.
He warned that US attacks could rise sharply if Iran sought to block tanker traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, which handles one-fifth of the world’s oil supply.
‘We will hit them so hard that it will not be possible for them or anybody else helping them to ever recover that section of the world.’
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps said it would not allow any oil to leave the region if attacks from the United States and Israel continue.
A portrait of late Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah sits in front of a destroyed building that housed a branch of Al-Qard Al-Hassan, a non-bank financial institution run by Hezbollah, which was hit by an Israeli airstrike in Dahiyeh, Beirut’s southern suburbs, Lebanon, Tuesday, March 10, 2026
‘We are the ones who will determine the end of the war,’ a spokesperson said, describing Trump’s comments as ‘nonsense’, according to state media.
In a later Truth Social post, Trump repeated his warning.
‘If Iran does anything that stops the flow of Oil within the Strait of Hormuz, they will be hit by the United States of America TWENTY TIMES HARDER than they have been hit thus far,’ he said.
Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said Iran was unlikely to resume negotiations with the US, citing what he described as a ‘bitter experience’ with past talks.
‘After three rounds of negotiation, the American team in the negotiation said itself that we made a big progress. Still, they decided to attack us. So, I don’t think talking to the Americans anymore would be on our agenda any more,’ he said in an interview with PBS.
He added: ‘We are well prepared to continue attacking them with our missiles as long as needed and as long as it takes.’
The war has already effectively shut the Strait of Hormuz, leaving tankers unable to sail for more than a week and forcing producers to halt pumping as storage facilities fill.
This is a breaking news story. More to follow.