Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says the United States is complicit in the crimes the Saudi regime is committing in a years-long war against the people of Yemen.
Addressing the families of Iranian martyrs in a meeting in Tehran on Wednesday, Ayatollah Khamenei highlighted the Saudi regime’s failures in the war it has been waging against Yemen with Washington’s support.
The Leader said the Saudis have extended a hand of friendship to the enemies of Islam.
“They (the Saudis) thought they would gain control [of Yemen] in a matter of days or weeks. [But] the farther they go, the harder they will fall down and the more stinging will be the blow that they will receive,” the Leader noted.
‘Beware of US’
Elsewhere in his remarks, Ayatollah Khamenei pointed to Washington’s long-running enmity towards the Iranian nation.
“If you want to know America’s true face, look at its current president and statesmen because these people have vividly and openly laid bare the typical ugly and hateful face of American statesmen,” the Leader said.
Ayatollah Khamenei urged the Iranian nation and authorities to remember that the US will never stop plotting against the country, emphasizing that the Israeli regime and the reactionary regional states are in cahoots with Washington in its hostile agenda against the Islamic Republic.
The Leader, however, asserted, “Of course, we are stronger. They have not managed to do anything so far, and will never be able to do a damn thing either.”
Over the past years, the Leader said, the US has consistently sought and failed to restore the control it enjoyed over Iran prior to the Islamic Revolution in 1979, and to bring it under its tutelage like a number of weak regional states, which Washington has called its “dairy cows.”
The leader further underlined Washington’s stepped-up campaign against Iran over the past two years, saying the Americans sought to put pressure on the country through sanctions and measures to disrupt the country’s national security with the aim of creating division and war among various groups.
“They wanted to lead some to the streets and had even called this ‘the hot summer.’ To the enemies' dismay, [however], this year’s summer was one of the best ever,” the Leader noted.
The Leader dismissed claims by some US officials that the Islamic Revolution will not get to celebrate its anniversary in 2019, stressing, “The Iranian nation is standing in all strength and will, by divine grace, celebrate the 40th anniversary of the victory in far greater splendor this year.”
The Leader said by dubbing the US “the Great Satan,” the late founder of the Islamic Republic, Imam Khomeini, united the world’s monotheists and fair-minded nations against Washington.
