Tehran.-Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in a rare appearance, delivered a sermon this Friday at the Imam Khomeini Mosalla Mosque in Tehran, in which he praised Iran’s attack on Israel on Tuesday and called it completely “legal.” .
He said what they did was the “minimal punishment” for Israel for its “shocking crimes.”
He described Israel as a “vampire” regime and the United States as a “mad dog” in the region. And he warned that the Islamic Republic will carry out “any related tasks” against Israel with “strength and fortitude.”
He twice emphasized that Iran will not “hesitate” or “procrastinate” when it comes to Israel.
In his first part of the speech, which he delivered in Persian, he emphasized the “unity” of Muslims around the world based on the principles of the Islamic holy book, the Quran.
He said that the enemy of Iran is the same as the enemy of a Palestinian state, Lebanon and other Muslim nations.
Khamenei formally holds the title of Friday prayer leader in Tehran, but typically assigns sermons to a rotating cast of subordinates.
This Friday he pronounced it. The leader’s sermons come three days before the one-year anniversary of the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks on Israel that sparked the current regional war.
It also comes three days after Iran launched a barrage of missiles at Israel in retaliation for the assassinations of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and IRGC (Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps) commander Abbas Nilforoushan, as well as Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran in July.
Khamenei last delivered his Friday prayer shortly after the death of Iranian General Qasem Soleimani in a US drone strike near Baghdad airport in 2020 and Iran’s subsequent attack on US military bases in Iraq. The last time before that was in 2012.
In his 40-minute speech to thousands of worshipers at the Mosalla Mosque, the main place of worship in Tehran, Khamenei, 85, said the attack led by the Hamas insurgent group on southern Israel almost a year ago, on October 7, 2023, was a legitimate action of the Palestinian people.
Khamenei urged countries from “Afghanistan to Yemen and from Iran to Gaza and Yemen” to be prepared to take action against the enemy, and praised those who fell in combat.
“Our people who resist in Lebanon and Palestine, brave fighters, loyal and patient people, the martyrs and the blood shed must not shake their determination but make them more persistent,” he added.
Also on Friday, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi arrived in the Lebanese capital, Beirut, where he is expected to discuss the war between Israel and Hezbollah with the country’s authorities.
A spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Esmail Baghaei, stated that Iran sent a shipment of aid to Lebanon that includes 10 tons of food and medicine. Clarín.
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2024-10-08 02:51:13
