{"id":371,"date":"2026-02-27T11:20:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T11:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8881\/2026\/02\/27\/kennedy-warns-ayatollah-wants-to-drink-our-blood-out-of-a-boot-as-iran-tensions-escalate\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T11:20:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T11:20:18","slug":"kennedy-warns-ayatollah-wants-to-drink-our-blood-out-of-a-boot-as-iran-tensions-escalate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/02\/27\/kennedy-warns-ayatollah-wants-to-drink-our-blood-out-of-a-boot-as-iran-tensions-escalate\/","title":{"rendered":"Kennedy warns ayatollah wants to ‘drink our blood out of a boot’ as Iran tensions escalate"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A Senate Republican warned Thursday that Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s primary focus is shedding American blood as U.S.-Iran relations continue to simmer.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“The ayatollah not only thinks that I’m going to hell because I don’t agree with his religion \u2014 he wants to kill me,” Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., said on the Senate floor Thursday.<\/p>\n

“He wants to kill Americans and the Israelis and anybody who does not believe in his jihad and drink our blood out of a boot,” Kennedy continued. “And he’s acted on that, and that’s not acceptable.”<\/p>\n

US POSITIONS AIRCRAFT CARRIERS, STRIKE PLATFORMS ACROSS MIDDLE EAST AS IRAN TALKS SHIFT TO OMAN<\/strong><\/p>\n

Kennedy\u2019s message comes as tensions with Iran are escalating. At the core of the issue is Iran\u2019s capability and Khamenei\u2019s desire to build a nuclear weapon.<\/p>\n

President Donald Trump gave the country\u2019s leadership roughly 10 to 15 days to reach a nuclear agreement and warned that the inability to strike a deal could lead to U.S. military action in the region.<\/p>\n

He renewed that edict during his State of the Union address earlier this week.<\/p>\n

TRUMP\u2019S IRAN ULTIMATUM ENTERS DECISIVE STRETCH AFTER STATE OF THE UNION<\/strong><\/p>\n

“I will never allow the world\u2019s number one sponsor of terror \u2026 to have a nuclear weapon,” Trump said.<\/p>\n

Kennedy cautioned that if the Trump administration were to broker a deal, it would need to have guardrails.<\/p>\n

“If we make a deal with Iran, let’s make sure we have a protocol to enforce it because, in my experience in watching the Ayatollah through the years, I wouldn’t trust this man if he was three days dead,” he said.<\/p>\n

SEN LINDSEY GRAHAM: IRAN IS FACING A BERLIN WALL MOMENT \u2014 HISTORY IS WATCHING US NOW<\/strong><\/p>\n

Lawmakers are wrestling with the exact nature of what a strike could look like and whether Congress should weigh in before Trump makes a decision.<\/p>\n

Senators Tim Kaine, D-Va., and Rand Paul, R-Ky., expect that their Iran war powers resolution will hit the Senate floor next week, which would curb Trump’s ability to strike the country without Congress’ approval.<\/p>\n

Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., said the most important aspect of the Iran negotiations was “to prevent them from having nuclear capability.”<\/p>\n

“But there are also other threats that they represent in the region, and we have a big presence in that region, as you know. So, I think they’re looking at and working through what the options might be,” Thune said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“In my view, if you’re going to do something there, you better well make it about getting new leadership and regime change.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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