Tehran, July 18 -- Senior military advisor to Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Seyyed Mojtaba Khamenei, Mohsen Rezaee, on Friday warned that Tehran could move beyond retaliatory strikes and launch what he described as a "full-scale invasion and annihilation" if the United States continues the ongoing conflict and military operation against the Islamic Republic following the collapse of the 14-point memorandum of understanding.

Rezaee, who is also a top official in Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), issued the warning in a post on X, saying that both "diplomacy and negotiations" had ended and that further US military action could lead to a major escalation.

"Both diplomacy and negotiations, as well as war, are over; if Ameri...