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Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatolá Ali Jamenei, offered on Thursday his first video message from the United States air attacks against nuclear facilities in his country and ceasefire between Iran and Israel.
Jamenei had not been seen by the public since June 18, when he made a television speech from an unleashed place.
On this occasion, Ayatolá said that the United States “did not achieve anything significant” by attacking Iranian nuclear facilities.
He said that President Donald Trump had offered an “unusually exaggerated” story of what had happened.
Trump said attacks with “breakbunkers” bombs had been “very severe. It was obliteration.”
His words were backed by a CIA report that said that “several Iranian nuclear facilities were destroyed and their reconstruction would last years.”
But Jamenei stressed that “anyone who had heard it (Trump) could realize that the US was overestimating things to distort the truth.”
“We attacked one of the US key bases in the region and tried to underestimate it,” said the religious leader, speaking of the attack against an American base in Qatar.
Jamenei praised the Iranian people to demonstrate their unity: “Our people are one voice.”
He stressed that US military action never related to nuclear issues, but sought the “surrender” of Iran.
“One day is about human rights, another day is about women's rights, then it is the nuclear issue, then about missiles,” he insisted. “But in the end it is always about one thing: they want Iran to surrender,” he completed.
“For a great country and nation like Iran, the mere mention of surrender is an insult,” he said.
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And he said that Donald Trump's comments were “too big for the mouth of the US president.” and that the truth accidentally revealed: that the Americans “have opposed the Islamic Republic of Iran since the pure beginning.”
“A strong slap” to the USA.
Before his video message was issued, the supreme leader had congratulated his country through the social network X for “the victory of our beloved Iran over the US regime.”
Jamenei said that USA “entered a direct war because he felt that, if he did not, the Zionist regime would be completely destroyed.”
However, from June 13 to the ceasefire of June 24, Israel carried out an extensive military operation that not only caused broad damage to the Iranian military infrastructure and its nuclear facilities, but also eliminated military leaders already nuclear scientists in the country.
For its part, Tehran launched several missile waves, some of which managed to penetrate the renowned “Iron Dome” Israeli, causing the death of dozens of civilians.
Jamenei used those facts to declare a “victory” over Israel in his account.
According to him, Iran could emerge “victorious” while “he gave a strong slap to the face of the United States.”
The supreme leader published more messages on other social networks, including his Telegram account in Farsi, in which he expressed admiration for the country's unity.
“A nation of about 90 million was united, with a voice, shoulder to shoulder, in support of the Armed Forces,” he wrote.
“The Iranian nation demonstrated its distinguished character and showed that, when necessary, only one voice will be heard.”
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