Iran supreme leader warns war would be 'much wider' if it resumes

Washington's hostility towards Tehran will not ​change through partisan shifts or ‌any concessions to the US, and those who believe ​otherwise are “greatly mistaken”, ​Iran's Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei ⁠said on Wednesday, following ​the Republican Party's defeats in ​the US midterm elections.

Khamenei warned that Iran's response to any ​renewed US aggression would ​be on a much greater scale, ‌adding ⁠that Tehran's destruction of US bases in the region and its management ​of the ​Strait ⁠of Hormuz had been part of a ​campaign against US ​hegemony.

“The ⁠US sees the end of its hegemony as ⁠distant; ​we see it ​as near,” he said.