Iranian leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei provided his first public statement on Thursday after U.S. airstrikes on the country’s nuclear program, declaring that the United States “achieved nothing.”
In his remarks, issued via state-run media outlets including Tasnim News, Khamenei declared victory over Israel and the United States.
“The U.S. entered the war directly because it feared that if it didn’t, the Zionist regime would be completely destroyed,” he said in his statement, referring to Israel and without providing evidence.
Khamenei also suggested that President Donald Trump’s and Israel’s assessment that the United States destroyed Iran’s nuclear facilities was false. He did not provide evidence to back up that claim….