March 17, 20204 Min Read
President Trump on Friday fired again at Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei — who earlier within the day known as him “a clown” — with a tweet warning that he had higher “be very cautious” when selecting his phrases.
“The so-called ‘Supreme Leader’ of Iran, who has not been so Supreme currently, had some nasty issues to say about america and Europe. Their financial system is crashing, and their persons are struggling. He must be very cautious together with his phrases!” the commander in chief wrote on his strategy to a weekend at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.
In his first Friday sermon in Tehran in eight years, the Ayatollah excoriated the US for its “cowardly” killing of prime basic Qassem Soleimani, who he stated was the best commander within the battle in opposition to ISIS.
In response to the drone strike, Iran launched a barrage of ballistic missiles concentrating on two bases housing US troops in Iraq, with out inflicting critical accidents.
“The truth that Iran has the ability to offer such a slap to a world energy reveals the hand of God,” Khamenei stated, including that the killing of Soleimani, commander of the Quds Pressure, confirmed Washington’s “terrorist nature.”
“The Quds Pressure is a humanitarian group with human values that protects folks throughout the area,” he stated. “They’re fighters with out borders.”
Khamenei, who delivered a part of his sermon in Arabic, stated the strike had dealt a blow to America’s picture as a superpower, including that stated the true punishment could be in forcing the US to withdraw from the Center East.
“Resistance should proceed till the area is totally free of the enemy’s tyranny,” Khamenei stated.
As Iran’s Revolutionary Guard braced for a US counterattack that by no means got here, it mistakenly shot down a Ukrainian airliner shortly after it took off from Tehran, killing all 176 passengers on board, largely Iranians.
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“The airplane crash was a bitter accident, it burned by means of our coronary heart,” Khamenei stated in an deal with punctuated by cries of “Loss of life to America” from the lots.
“However some tried to… painting it in a strategy to neglect the nice martyrdom and sacrifice” of Soleimani, the top of the international operations arm of the Revolutionary Guards, he stated, including that the elite drive can take its combat past Iran’s borders.
Iran initially denied its position within the tragedy, blaming the crash on a technical drawback, however later admitted duty.
As a outcome, avenue protests erupted across the nation, prompting safety forces to disperse the crowds with dwell ammo and tear fuel.
Trump despatched tweets in Farsi and English to help the protesters, drawing a sharp response from Khamenei.
“These American clowns who lie and say they’re with the Iranian folks ought to see who the Iranian persons are,” he stated Friday.
Iranians chanting slogans throughout Friday prayers in Tehran.Getty Photos
Khamenei additionally lashed out at Britain, France and Germany, saying they’re too weak to convey Iranians to their knees after they triggered a dispute mechanism to attempt to convey Iran again into compliance with the unraveling 2015 nuclear settlement.
“After the US exited the deal, I instructed you then that these international locations can’t be trusted. Even their negotiations with Iran are stuffed with deceit,” he stated.
However, he added, he was nonetheless open to negotiation — simply not with the US.
“The gents behind the desks that negotiate are the identical as those that terrorized Gen. Soleimani,” stated Khamenei, 80, who brazenly wept on the funeral of the revered army commander.
Tensions between Tehran and the Washington have spiked since Trump withdrew the US from the nuclear cope with world powers, which had imposed restrictions on its nuclear program in alternate for the lifting of worldwide sanctions.
After Soleimani was killed, Iran introduced it could now not be certain by the restrictions within the settlement.
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