Iran’s Khamenei Threatens to ‘Send’ U.S. Aircraft Carrier ‘to Bottom of the Sea’
Iranian military temporarily closes the Strait of Hormuz, holds war games.
Iran made renewed threats and temporarily closed the Strait of Hormuz, as the U.S. and Iranian officials on Tuesday concluded another round of inconclusive nuclear talks.
Iran’s dictator, Ali Khamenei, threatened to ‘send’ American aircraft carriers to the ‘bottom of the sea’ while the diplomatic negotiations were underway in Geneva, Switzerland. Iran’s top Mullah mocked President Donald Trump and spoke disparagingly about the U.S. military might.
“The US President keeps saying that they have the strongest military force in the world. The strongest military force in the world may at times be struck so hard that it cannot get up again,” Iran’s genocidal tyrant boasted in a speech, while his supporters chanted “Death to America” and “Death to Israel” in the background.
🚨Iran's regime leader Ayatollah Khomeini says that like other U.S. presidents, President Trump won't be able to topple the Islamic Republic either and promises to sink the U.S. aircraft carriers near Iran.
What should be President Trump's response? pic.twitter.com/tYhK7d2LD9
— Commentary Donald J. Trump Posts From Truth Social (@TrumpDailyPosts) February 17, 2026
The Iranian military, on Tuesday, blockaded the Strait of Hormuz for several hours, as it conducted war games in one of the world’s most important shipping lanes. Iran’s Islamic Guard (IRGC) fired missiles into the 90-mile waterway that connects the Persian Gulf to the open ocean.
“Iran announced the temporary closure of the Strait of Hormuz on Tuesday for live fire military drills in a rare show of force as its negotiators held another round of indirect talks with the United States in Geneva over its disputed nuclear program,” The Associated Press reported.
“It was the first time Iran has announced the closure of the key international waterway,” the news agency noted. According to The New York Times, “A quarter of the world’s oil and 20 percent of the world’s liquefied natural gas passes through the Strait of Hormuz.”
While Washington did not comment on the outcome of the talks on Tuesday, Terhan appears to be pleased with the ongoing negotiations. The NBC News reports:
The United States and Iran have reached an understanding on the “guiding principles” in nuclear talks, Tehran’s foreign minister said Tuesday, though he cautioned that work still needs to be done to reach an agreement and head off the threat of an American military attack.
“I believe we made good progress,” said Abbas Araghchi, the head of the Iranian delegation in Geneva. “The path toward an agreement has started but we will not reach it quickly,” he told state media after hours of indirect talks, adding that the two sides would separately work on draft texts before a new round of negotiations.
There was no immediate public reaction to the talks from Washington; the State Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment from NBC News.
Tehran wants the Trump administration to lift sanctions in exchange for vague promises to restrict its nuclear program. “Iran is ready to consider compromises to reach a nuclear deal with the US if the Americans are willing to discuss lifting sanctions,” the BBC reported Sunday, quoting an Iranian minister.
The Khamenei regime has amassed a huge stockpile of near-weapons-grade uranium and has been developing ballistic missiles capable of hitting major European cities. The BBC observed that the regime had a “stockpile of more than 400 kilos of highly enriched uranium.”
Tehran wants the current round of talks to go the way the Obama-Kerry nuclear deal went. The 2015 deal sought to give Iran, the world’s biggest state sponsor of terrorism, access to $100 billion to $150 billion in frozen assets.
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Hit that man with your skateboard and take his rifle
-Darwin
You are assuming he has the ability to ride a skateboard.
Skateboards aren’t for riding anymore — they’re blunt instrument weapons that Pantifa can’t be arrested for carrying.
Let’s register skaeboards, require a 4477 form, and a ten day waiting period…!
Trump promised the people of Iran that he is coming to their aid and that the ongoing murder of protesters must be stopped. Every day Trump delays action, thousand more Iranian protesters will die. They have no weapons to defend themselves. No firearms allowed for the masses. All they have are their voices, soon to be silenced by thousands more deaths. Soon no one left standing. No more anti Khameni protesters. No more excuses for US Military presence or action. Another demonstration of why not to ally with the USA. Trump needs to act sooner, not later or lose credibility. Khameni is just gaining time to resist US military action and reduce or eliminate opposition to his reign!
Where’s a Tomahawk cruise missile when you need one?
It’s way past time to just drone this idiot.
Meanwhile on polymarket: 65% chance the US seizes an Iran-linked oil tanker by Feb 28…
FA and FO. Nothing more.
If you really think about it, 99% of our foreign relations problems would be resolved if it were the policy of the United States not to buy a single drop of oil from a muslim majority nation, or a drop of oil that transits the Straight of Hormuz, and to fully exploit our domestic petroleum reserves in order to economically crush nations like Iran.
We don’t need to put up with their 🐂💩.
As to the comment about sinking an aircraft carrier? Go ahead and give it a try. Just remember that not all ships of a carrier battle group are visible on the surface and there’s a world of hurt hiding beneath the waves.
They would be more manageable if they were all still living in tents in the desert
“The strongest military force in the world may at times be struck so hard that it cannot get up again”
Sure, but you ain’t no ways the dude to do it, Mortimer.
Ah, I think I understand the problem. This idiot has never actually seen an aircraft carrier. It’s going to be a hard lesson learned.
someone should tell this goat lover
that Obama and Kerry are no longer
in power.
You know why Muzzies have one arm longer than the other? From carrying a cinder block around the pasture!
Death to all Islamofascists, Muslim supremacists, Muslim terrorists and their non-Muslim, useful idiot enablers, allies and fellow travelers.
Kamenei is the new Pogo: “I have met the Great Satan, and he is us.”
That’s not going to go well with the negotiations!
Well, I guess that’s one of those double dog dare you kind of things. Not that I want an attack on US aircraft carrier, but I kind of do want to see what the reaction would look like
“threatened to ‘send’ American aircraft carriers to the ‘bottom of the sea’’
Ha ha ha! Khamenei is calling spirits
fromto the vasty deep.Yeah, they ain’t comin’, Ali.
You’re worm food before the year is out.
We should declare that the negotiations have reached the “Well . . . We tried!” level, and officially end any further efforts.
These savages have been stalling all along. It’s time to end them.
It is past time to sink the evil regime in Iran. The world is tired of their terrorism.
I hear there will be no moon (New Moon), a great time for strikes
New moon tonight Feb 17-18, next Mar 17-18. Our aircraft and missiles don’t need visible light to land on target. Heck, even munitions deliveries from the old FB-111A’s decades ago were so astoundingly accurate that the SAC bomber wings having them set records for targeting that stood for decades.
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need to start checking his emails and texts to mamdami
Madman! There, spelling corrected. FIFY.
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Good luck with that, Koranimals.
Let’s hope it’s an empty threat, because if they do sink a carrier it would be hard to overstate the impact on American power.
That’s all part of the risk calculation, the opponent gets to try and hit you back or first for that matter…..if they can.
Somebody needs to remind that 7th century barbarian that a single U.S. carrier strike group is capable of expending more destructive energy than was employed by all sides combined during World War II. In simpler terms, we can turn all of Iran into a ten-foot-deep crater.
Okay , r#ghead, give it a try!
I suspect there is a lot of work going on in the dark between the juices and America around surveiling the buggery out of Iran, its intentions and the movements of its leadership caste.
To think, nothing that has happened in the last couple years would have happened if it wasnt for Hamas. We really should thank Hamas for the work they did in destroying their major benefactor.
Your blather even when back by Russia and China hasn’t done you any good since the 70s.
“Maduro” him and then do to him what Shapur did to Valerian.
And we are trying to negotiate with this raving lunatic? What does Steve Witless think he is going to accomplish? A new hotel in Tehran? A golf club near Qom?