After days of absence, Khamena came out to say that Iran “slammed America” and send a message to Trump
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Photo source: Zuma Press Wire / Shutterstock Editorial / Profimedia
Ali Khamena, 86, has not been seen in public since she took refuge in a secret bunker, after Israel attacked Iranian nuclear installations and assassinated several military commanders and scientists, writes Reuters.
The supreme leader of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, proclaimed Victoria on Israel on Thursday and said that his country “slapped America”, in the first public comments after the armistice concluded in the war between the two countries.
Khamenei spoke in a video recorded by the Iranian state television, its first appearance since June 19, showing and looking more tired than just a week ago, writes also Associated Press.
He told viewers that the US had intervened in the war only because “they felt that if they did not intervene, the Zionist regime will be completely destroyed.” But he said, however, that Washington “did not gain any profit from this war.”
“The Islamic Republic was victorious and slapped on the face of America,” he said, in an apparent reference to an Iranian rocket attack on an American Qatar base on Monday, who did not make victims.
He said that US President Donald Trump had an “unusually exaggerated” account of things.
It was clear that he had to do it, Khamenei said – adding that anyone listened to him could realize that the US have exaggerated things to distort the truth.
The supreme leader also said that Trump asked Iran to “surrender”, but his comments were “too big for the US president's mouth.”
“For a big country and a nation such as Iran, the mere mention of capitulation is an insult,” added Khamena.
The supreme leader also claimed that Donald Trump accidentally revealed a truth-that the Americans opposed the Islamic Republic of Iran from the beginning.
The US military action has never been related to nuclear problems or nuclear enrichment, but to the “surrender” of Iran, Khamenei said.
Khamena, 86, has not been seen in public since she took refuge in a secret bunker, when Israel has attacked Iranian nuclear installations and assassinated several military commanders and scientists.
The absence of the supreme leader in the public space has generated anxiety and fights between factions, writes New York Times.
