Iran supreme leader says US, Israel seek to 'bring nation to its knees'
- 'The enemy's blind plan, after the imposed war, the economic pressure, and the political and propaganda siege, is to create divisions.' says Khamenei
Iran's Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei accused the US and Israel of seeking to destabilize the Islamic republic through division, following his father's death in US-Israeli strikes that ignited a regional war.
- US and Israeli attempts to destabilize Iran.
- Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei's call for national unity.
- The killing of Ali Khamenei and the ensuing regional conflict.
TEHRAN: Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei said on Thursday that the United States and Israel were seeking to destabilise the Islamic republic in a written message read on state television.
“The enemy’s blind plan, after the imposed war, the economic pressure, and the political and propaganda siege, is to create divisions and disintegration in order to compensate for military defeats and bring the nation to its knees,” said Khamenei, who has not appeared in public since before he took office in March.
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In his message, which marked the anniversary of the founding of the Islamic republic’s national legislature, he further called for unity and “cohesion” among Iranians.
Mojtaba Khamenei, 56, succeeded his father supreme leader Ali Khamenei, who was killed on February 28 in the opening US-Israeli strikes on Iran, which sparked a war across the region.
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