(AhlulBayt News Agency) - A senior Iranian cleric warned US President-elect Donald Trump not to repeat previous mistakes made by American leaders or else he would face the same predicaments as they did.
“If you (Donald Trump) want to pursue the same crazy approach, you will have the same fate as former US presidents,” Tehran’s provisional Friday Prayers leader Ayatollah Seyed Ahmad Khatami said in an address to worshippers in Tehran on Friday, noting that the previous presidents are hated by people.
He also cautioned Trump against any measure against the Islamic Republic, stressing that Iranians have always shown resistance in face of arrogant and bullying powers’ threats.
“Iranians are a brave nation. Beware, toying with Iran is [like] playing with fire,”.
Ayatollah Khatami further expressed the hope that Trump will come to his senses and avoid creating more tensions in the world as he has pledged in his speech after winning the US election.
He added that wherever the slightest turmoil breaks out, the US shows up and said the country’s taxpayers’ money is spent to murder people in Yemen, Syria and other countries.
Khatami said a country grappling with so many problems cannot end the plights of other nations and expressed hope that Trump would act wisely and steer clear of tensions with any country.
Elsewhere, the senior Iranian cleric noted that the Islamic Republic has always respected voters and their choices around the world, and criticized the US, which portrays itself as the champion of democracy, for not recognizing Bashar al-Assad, who secured 70 percent of the votes in the June 2014 elections, as the legitimate president of Syria.
Republican Donald Trump stunned the world by defeating Hillary Clinton in the race for the White House on Tuesday, ending eight years of Democratic rule.
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