US to suffer from war threats: Iran

TEHRAN - Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei said Friday that the United States will suffer from any war threat or potential war against the Islamic republic.

Khamenei made the remarks in Tehran when leading the Friday prayers that was broadcast live by the state TV.

"Threats of war (against Iran) is for the loss of the US and the war itself is ten times for the loss of the US," he said.

Referring to the military threats and sanction threats by certain Western countries over Iran's controversial nuclear program, Khamenei said that the United States and other Western countries should know that Iran also has "threats to make, which will be made in its due time."

The Iranian leader said that his country will not step back in the face of the Western sanction threats. These sanctions will be fired back by the Islamic republic, he added.