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Tehran’s top security official has warned the US president to be careful, after threats to hit the Islamic Republic “twenty times harder”
Iran’s top security official has dismissed US President Donald Trump’s threats after he vowed to strike Iran “twenty times harder” if it continues to threaten the strategic Strait of Hormuz in retaliation for the US-Israeli attacks.
The strikes have killed at least 1,332 civilians across Iran since Washington and West Jerusalem began their attack more than a week ago, the Iranian Red Crescent has reported.
Iranian National Security Council Secretary Ali Larijani branded Trump’s threats “empty,” writing on Telegram: “Even those greater than you could not eliminate the Iranian nation. Be careful not to be eliminated!”
A new wave of US-Israeli strikes has killed at least 40 people in Tehran, bringing the number of Iranian civilians killed by the US-Israeli war to over 1,300.
Trump has also strongly criticized Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, who was elected as Iran’s supreme leader following the killing of his father, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has threatened to assassinate anyone who takes the post.
Russian President Vladimir Putin, who held a phone call with Trump on Monday, said the escalating conflict risks entirely choking off the region’s oil exports through the now “de-facto closed” Strait of Hormuz. RT has assessed the impact of $100 oil, and the subsequent rise in Urals oil, for Russia.
• The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has reportedly promised full freedom of passage to ships from any Arab or European country that expels US and Israeli ambassadors.
• The price of Russian Urals oil has surged to a premium over Brent, which which peaked at over $120 on Monday. Trump has dismissed the spike as “a very small price to pay” for the war against Iran.
• As of Tuesday, the US-Israeli attacks have killed over 1,300 Iranian civilians, according to official data from Iran.
• The deadliest attack yet was a strike on a girls’ school in Minab in southern Iran that killed 168 children. Multiple media outlets have concluded from available footage that the school was hit by a US Tomahawk missile. Trump has dismissed the reports, insisting that Tehran is to blame.
• The US-Israeli strikes on oil facilities near Tehran have produced a “black rain” of toxic oil and soot, with residents reporting breathing difficulties. Online images and footage show thick smog over the capital, as Iran’s Red Crescent Society warns that the rain could be “highly dangerous and acidic.”
• At least 13 Israelis have been killed in the crossfire so far. Iran’s retaliatory strikes on US bases in the region have killed at least four in the UAE, one in Bahrain, six in Kuwait, and two in Saudi Arabia.Follow our live coverage below for continuous updates.
The claim that Iran was planning on attacking the U.S. or U.S. Forces, whether preventively or preemptively, is a sheer and utter lie.
— Seyed Abbas Araghchi (@araghchi) March 10, 2026
The sole purpose of that lie is to justify Operation Epic Mistake, a misadventure engineered by Israel and paid for by ordinary Americans.
U.S. officials are posting fake news to manipulate markets. It won't protect them from inflationary tsunami they've imposed on Americans.
— Seyed Abbas Araghchi (@araghchi) March 10, 2026
Markets are facing biggest shortfall in HISTORY: bigger than Arab Oil Embargo, Iran's Islamic Revolution and the Kuwait invasion COMBINED. pic.twitter.com/PljGSY3w5K
"If Iran has put out any mines in the Hormuz Strait, and we have no reports of them doing so, we want them removed, IMMEDIATELY!" – President Donald J. Trump 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/WeX6rE4Uw1
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) March 10, 2026
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