00:12He runs a country, he inherited a war, and now he's telling Trump, your word means nothing.
00:20Iran's new supreme leader just called out the president of the United States by name,
00:25and the words he used are brutal.
00:27This is Mojtaba Khomeini, 56 years old, son of Ali Khomeini, who was killed back in February
00:34when U.S. and Israeli forces struck Iran on day one of a coordinated assault.
00:40Mojtaba stepped into his father's shoes almost overnight, and now he's steering Iran through
00:46the very war that put him in power.
00:49And this weekend, he went straight after Trump.
00:52Khomeini said repeated U.S. violations of a memorandum of understanding had proven how
00:58worthless and unreliable the signature of the president of the United States is, adding that
01:04bullying, hegemonic ambition, and savagery are woven into the American way.
01:09That's not diplomatic language.
01:12That's a leader telling the world, don't trust a deal with America because America won't honor it.
01:18He didn't stop there. Khomeini warned that if the U.S. keeps pushing for more war, more cost,
01:25and more disgrace, it should know that Iran and what he calls the axis of resistance have
01:31unforgettable lessons waiting for it. Chilling, vague, deliberate. That's the kind of line
01:38designed to keep an entire military on edge, wondering what comes next. This isn't posturing
01:44in a vacuum. Washington and Iran have been trading strikes since a ceasefire agreement collapsed last
01:50week, and now there are real casualties. The U.S. says American service members have been killed.
01:57CENTCOM has launched retaliatory airstrikes, aimed specifically at Iran's ability to threaten
02:03shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow waterway that carries roughly a fifth of the world's
02:09oil trade. That Strait is the real pressure point here. Every time it's threatened, energy markets
02:16flinch. So picture where we are. A brand new, largely unseen Iranian leader, one Trump himself
02:23once said he wasn't sure was even alive, now openly branding the American president untrustworthy
02:30on the world stage. A collapsed ceasefire, strikes going both directions, and a global shipping
02:37lane hanging in the balance.
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