DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran’s Supreme Chief Ayatollah Ali Khamenei stated Thursday his nation had “delivered a hand slap to America’s face” and warned towards any additional U.S. attacks in his first public feedback since a ceasefire was declared with Israel.
Khamenei spoke in a video broadcast on Iranian state tv, his first look since June 19, trying and sounding extra drained than he did solely per week in the past.
He instructed viewers that the U.S. had solely intervened within the struggle as a result of “it felt that if it didn’t intervene, the Zionist regime could be totally destroyed.”
However he stated that the U.S. “achieved no good points from this struggle.”
“The Islamic Republic was victorious and, in retaliation, delivered a hand slap to America’s face,” he stated, in obvious reference to an Iranian missile assault on an American base in close by Qatar on Monday, which prompted no casualties.
Khamenei warned that “such an motion could be repeated sooner or later, too,” saying that Iran has “entry to key U.S. facilities within the area and might take motion each time it deems mandatory.”
“Ought to any aggression happen, the enemy will certainly pay a heavy value,” he stated.
The 86-year-old Khamenei hasn’t been seen in public since taking shelter in a secret location after the outbreak of the struggle June 13 when Israel attacked Iranian nuclear facilities and focused prime navy commanders and scientists.
Following an American assault on June 22 that hit the nuclear websites with bunker-buster bombs, U.S. President Donald Trump was in a position to assist negotiate a ceasefire that got here into impact on Tuesday.
In his look on Thursday, he sat in entrance of plain brown curtains to provide his tackle, much like his June 19 message.
