AhlulBayt News Agency - “There is intense speculation in Turkey’s recent events that the coup was carried out with Americans’ planning and assistance, and if confirmed, it will mark a big scandal for the US,” Imam Khamenei said in an address to a huge gathering of Iranian people in Tehran on Monday. Washington’s hostile plots and interference are not confined to Iran, the Leader stressed, adding that the US is “opposed to Islam and Islamic tendencies and that is why they stage a coup in Turkey, in which there are Islamic tendencies.” The coup was crushed in Turkey and the US became obnoxious in the eyes of the Turkish people, Imam Khamenei added, noting that Americans are on the wane in other places like Iraq and Syrian, too. Earlier in July, Turkish President Recep Tayyib Erdogan’s government foiled the coup by a faction in the armed forces. There are speculations that the coup plotters have had links with the US.
JCPOA experience demonstrated that US is not trustworthy
Elsewhere in the address his eminence added that the JCPOA experience also showed that the solution “for the progress of the country and the improvement of the nation’s living standards is [focusing] attention to existing potentialities in the country, not the enemies who are constantly creating obstacles for Iran in the region and the world.”
The Leader further stressed that the Iranian nation must learn from the experience of the US conduct regarding the JCPOA, expressing, “They [the US officials] say come and negotiate [with us] on regional issues as well, but the JCPOA experience tells us that taking this step would be a deadly poison and that the Americans’ remarks cannot be trusted on any issue.”
Saudi-Israel relations, a stab in the Islamic Ummah’s back
Supreme leader stressed "What the Saudi government has done and started open romance with the Zionist regime and disclosing (their) exchange of visits to the public is a stab in the back of the Muslim Ummah, there is no doubt about that. What the Saudis have done, (i.e.) overt relations with the Zionist regime is, in fact, a dagger stabbed in the back of the Muslim Ummah, (they) have done major treason, they are sinful. Yet, the Americans’ hand is seen in here too. The Saudi government has done this big wrong action because it is obedient to the US because it is possessed by the US because it is watchful of the US words (to listen and obey), again the Americans are involved in here,". He also blasted the Saudis' massacre of the Yemeni people and children and destroying the country's houses, hospitals and schools, and said this crime is also being committed with the US green light. Imam Khamenei voiced regret that even the UN is keeping mum on the Saudis' crimes in Yemen after receiving money and threats, and said even the UN secretary-general admitted these pressures while he should have resigned instead of remaining in his post and betraying the human kind. He described the Saudis' military deployment in Bahrain as another instance of measures supported by the US, and said, "Today, the Saudi government is in the hands of unwise people but the precise analysis of issues shows that the US hand is seen in all these events."
Finally, the Leader of the Islamic Revolution described unity among Muslim nations, as well as resistance against imperialist goals of the U.S. and some European countries, as a solution towards resolving regional issues. He advised, “These goals should be recognized and resisted and our nation is standing strong on the same path.”
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