Ayatollah Sayyed Ahmad Khatami said, in his Friday sermon on August 1, that Iran did not begin the 12-day imposed war but defended itself full-forcedly, reported Taqrib News Agency (TNA).
He said,” The endeavors by Iran’s defense forces turned the occupied Haifa and Tel Aviv into a ghost house” warning of another blow to the regime if the atrocities are repeated.
He expressed regret over the loss of Iranian senior commanders and nuclear scientists during the imposed war and said,” Warfare takes its tolls but the winner of the 12-day imposed war was the Islamic Republic of Iran.”
The senior cleric denounced the US support for the Israeli attack on Iran saying,” The US has a dark record of launching war against countries as it has attacked, by direct or indirect aggression, 25 countries in recent years.”
Ayatollah Khatami said the US direct interference in the Israeli war on Iran aimed to defend the regime and praised Iran for the retaliatory attack it launched against the US bases in Qatar.
The retaliatory operation followed the US bombing of three Iranian nuclear sites in Fordow, Arak and Natanz that aimed to obliterate Iran’s nuclear program.
The Friday prayer leader of Tehran noted that the west miscalculated that the outbreak of war against Iran would lead to an unrest in the country while the aggression boosted the popular support for the leadership and the Iranian armed forces.
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