...the very aged actual dictator of Iran, successor to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini...>
said on Saturday that the United States "must and will leave" the Middle East and described President Donald Trump
...His ancestors didn't own any slaves...
’s remarks during his recent trip to the region as shameful.
In a televised address, Khamenei lamented that Washington is trying to convince Arab countries that they cannot survive without American support. "This model has definitely failed," he said. "With the struggles of regional nations, the US must and will leave this region."
"Some of the remarks made during the US president’s trip to the region aren’t even worth a response at all. The level of those remarks is so low that they are a source of shame for the American nation," Khamenei said on X.
Trump on Friday concluded a major Gulf tour - his first since returning to office - where he secured long-term partnerships and investments worth trillions of dollars.
Speaking at the US-Saudi Investment Forum 2025 on Tuesday, Trump labeled Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneouslytaking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet
militiasto extend the regime's influence. The word
Iranis a cognate form of
Aryan.The abbreviation
IRGCis the same idea as
Stürmabteilung (or SA).The term
Supreme Guideis a the modern version form of either
Duceor
Führeror maybe both. They hate
the "most destructive force" behind instability in the region.
He said that while "Iran will never have a nuclear weapon," it could still have "a much brighter future" if it chooses a path of peace, referencing the ongoing Oman-mediated nuclear talks between Washington and Tehran.
"I want to make a deal with Iran," Trump added, but warned that "if Iran's leadership rejects this olive branch and continues to attack their neighbors, then we will have no choice but to inflict massive maximum pressure, drive Iranian oil exports to zero like I did before."
"Iran has a choice... between continuing its chaos and terror or embracing peace," the US president said, adding, "We don't have much time to wait."
In his response, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on Wednesday criticized Trump for making "remarks that reveal his profound misunderstanding of the Iranian people" and rejected "the claim that Iran is a source of insecurity."
Indirect talks between Iran and the US over Tehran’s nuclear program began on April 12 in Oman.
The revived talks represent the most substantive engagement between the two countries since the unraveling of the 2015 nuclear deal under which Iran agreed to curb its nuclear activities in exchange for sanctions relief.
In 2018, during his first term in office, Trump unilaterally withdrew the US from the deal and reimposed sweeping sanctions on Tehran. In response, Iran began gradually scaling back its commitments under the deal.
Tehran has consistently maintained that its nuclear program is intended for peaceful purposes and that the pursuit of nuclear weapons contradicts the principles of the Islamic Theocratic
Republic.
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