Ali Khamenei said this morning that if the United States initiates a war, it will not remain limited — it would become a regional war. He described the recent unrest in Iran as an attempted coup and dismissed ongoing U.S. military threats, including talk of aircraft carrier deployments.
Iran’s Supreme Leader said on Sunday that if the United States were to start a war, it would become a wider regional conflict, state media reported.
“America should know that if it starts a war, this time it will be a regional war,” Ali Khamenei said, dismissing recent US… pic.twitter.com/f3Aa0BhBrr
— Iran International English (@IranIntl_En) February 1, 2026
Iran’s supreme leader warned the United States that if “they start a war, this time it will be a regional war.” The comments from the 86-year-old Ayatollah Ali Khamenei are the most-direct threat he’s made so far.
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Iran will treat the armies of European Union countries as “terrorist groups” after the EU designated the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist organization, parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said on Sunday.
“By trying to hit the Revolutionary Guards … the Europeans actually shot themselves in the foot and once again made a decision against the interests of their people by blindly obeying the Americans,” Ghalibaf told lawmakers, who were wearing Revolutionary Guard uniforms in a show of support for the force.
“According to Article 7 of the law on countermeasures against the designation of the Revolutionary Guards as a terrorist organisation, the armies of European countries are considered terrorist groups,” he added, saying parliament’s national security commission would consider expelling EU military attaches and pursue the matter with Iran’s foreign ministry.
Americans should know if they start a war, this time it will be a REGIONAL WAR — Supreme Leader Khamenei https://t.co/DClRZDbzvs pic.twitter.com/lW1zC3BA17
— RT (@RT_com) February 1, 2026