(AhlulBayt News Agency) - “Trump says, ‘Fear me!’ No. The [Iranian] people will respond to these remarks on Bahman 22 and will show what position the Iranian people assume vis-à-vis threats,” Imam Khamenei said on Tuesday.
Imam Khamenei was referring to the date on the Persian calendar coinciding with the anniversary of the February 11, 1979 Islamic Revolution, when the Iranian nation staged countrywide rallies celebrating the Revolution’s victory.
Trump tweeted earlier this month that “Iran is playing with fire - they don’t appreciate how ‘kind’ President Obama was to them. Not me!”
“[Donald Trump] The new president of the United States argues that we should be thankful to [former US president Barack] Obama,” the Leader said, wondering why. “Why should we be thankful to Obama? for [creation of] Deash terrorist group, the war in Iraq and Syria, and his blatant support for the 2009 sedition in Iran?” Imam Khamenei asked.
It was Obama that imposed 'crippling' sanctions against the Iranian people, but he failed to achieve what he wished for, said Imam Khamenei.
“We should be thankful to the new guy who has come recently, though, Imam Khamenei said, referring to Trump, the new occupant of the White House.
“Because he made the job easier for us and showed us the real face of the United States, in other words, what we were trying to say during more than the past three decades,” Imam Khamenei said.
We tried to show the political, economic, ethical, and social corruption in the US establishment, Imam Khamenei said.
“Now, this guy, both during his campaign and after election has publicly and overtly declared this,” Imam Khamenei said.
“Presently, too, by embarking on such actions, like putting handcuffs on a five-year-old kid, he is demonstrating the reality behind the American human rights,” Imam Khamenei said.
Imam Khamenei made the remarks in a meeting with a number of commanders, officers, pilots, and staff members from Iran’s Air Force and the country’s Khatam al-Anbiya Air Defense Base.
The meeting took place on the anniversary of a historical development before the 1979 Revolution that saw Homafaran, air force officers in the monarchical Pahlavi regime, meeting with and pledging allegiance to Imam Khomeni, the founder of the Islamic Republic.
In his Tuesday remarks, Imam Khamenei said, “During the time of the tyrannical [monarchical] regime, the Air Force was one of the closest sections to the US-tied political system. But the regime received the most vehement blow from this very section, something it would have never thought of.”
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