I'll see myself out...
Posted on 06/26/2025 11:25:39 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The aging leader’s message was defiant but somber, delivered in front of a tan curtain flanked by an Iranian flag and a portrait of his predecessor.
DUBAI — Iran’s supreme leader Thursday gave his first address to the nation since a bruising conflict with Israel ended earlier this week. In a prerecorded video message, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei downplayed reports of severe damage to the country’s nuclear program following a wave of U.S. strikes and declared victory over both Israel and the United States.
“The Islamic Republic slapped America in the face,” said Khamenei, 86. He said U.S. strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities did not do “anything important” and that the United States only intervened to save Israel from being “completely destroyed.”
The supreme leader’s message was defiant but his tone appeared somber. He has been in hiding for nearly two weeks as Israel, launching surprise attacks on June 13, pummeled Tehran and other cities, killing senior military leadership and Iran’s nuclear brain trust. Iran retaliated with missile strikes on Israel and a U.S. air base in neighboring Qatar. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu both suggested during the war that Khamenei was vulnerable and not immune from their strikes.
In his address Thursday, the aging leader sat in front of a tan curtain flanked by an Iranian flag and a portrait of his predecessor and founder of the Islamic Republic, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. He spoke directly to the camera but it was unclear exactly when the video was recorded. He referred both to the ceasefire with Israel and Iran’s missile fire at the base in Qatar.
Also Thursday, Iran’s 12-member Guardian Council, an appointed body that reflects Khamenei’s preferences, approved a bill from parliament ordering the government to suspend cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency,...
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graduated 1st in his class from the “Baghdad Bob” School of Public Relations
Still hiding in his BUNKER ?
Khamenei > This reads like a Babylon Bee article.
I'll see myself out...
Has he gone back home yet?
Dud they reuse the Joe Biden puppet and put a beard on it?
Yup. Nothing a .338 Lapua couldn’t fix. 😁
I hate to say it but
More applications of the GBU-57
will be necessary
But did anybody actually see him?
LOL!
The supreme leader)
The Supreme Twelver Jihad Idiot
Of course hes defiant...
I wouldnt expect him to be anything else...
His Moslem beliefs that his god is greater than the God of the Jews and the Christians and that we are the infidels and therefore dung under his feet was fed to him with his mother’s milk...
The belief that we are to be killed by him and his homies has been in his head for 80+ years...
and he has acted on that so called ‘righteous’ belief for decades...
The ayatollahs are like the old Chinese emperors...
Hidden away in a well-guarded palace...
Oh. Is the ceasefire back on?
He won, what else can he say?!?!
Good one 😳😀
Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain.
Perhaps a second round of B2’s will awken him to reality?
Can someone post the video of Bagdad Bob?
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