Khamenei: If U.S. starts war, we'll win

The office of Iranian Supreme leader Ali Khamenei has released a video that promises if there is war with the United States, the "invading and criminal America" will "leave the war arena defeated."

The new video was noticed by the Middle East Media Research Institute, which monitors the region's media.

MEMRI said the video was posted on Khamenei's Twitter account.

Under two minutes in length, it has English subtitles and prominently ridicules President Obama's statement that the U.S. would not have a problem "knocking out [Iran's] military with speed and dispatch if we choose it."

"House of War: Islam's Jihad Against the World" conveys what the West needs to know about Islam and the violent, expansionary ideology that seeks the subjugation and destruction of other faiths, cultures and systems of government

Khamenei calls the statement by Obama "nonsense stemming from ignorance."

According to MEMRI, Khamenei goes on to advise the Americans to "use their experiences [in the Middle East] correctly' as images play in the background: a swift boat attack on an American aircraft carrier, photos of the advanced American RQ-170 drone that Iran brought down on its soil, a photo of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah against a backdrop of a missile flying the Hezbollah flag, photos from the 2006 Lebanon war, Khamenei delivering a speech to soldiers from Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Iranian missiles being launched and striking ships, bodies of American soldiers returning from Iraq, and a photo of Khamenei leading Iran's top military echelon as a crowd calls 'Khamenei is the leader."

The video, distributed Sept. 13, is titled "If Any War Happens ..."

Khamenei says in the video: "We will not be the first to [launch] any war, we do not welcome any war. But if any war happens here, the invading and criminal America will be the side that will leave the war arena defeated."

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