Iran warns that attack on Khamenei would result in war: ‘We will set their world on fire’

Tehran warned Tuesday that any attack on Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah ​Ali Khamenei would result in a declaration of jihad, or holy war — as its military leader dismissed President Trump’s threat of strikes as “noise.”

As tensions mount over the Islamic Republic’s violent crackdown on anti-government protesters and threats of military action from President Trump, Iran’s national security parliamentary commission said the country would be ready to conduct holy war if its leadership is threatened.

“Any attack on the Supreme Leader means a declaration of war with the entire Islamic world and must await the issuance of a Jihad decree by Islamic scholars and ​the response of Islam’s soldiers in all parts of the world,” the Iranian Students News Agency quoted the commission saying.

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