Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has rebuked US President Donald Trump’s remarks on “regime change” in Tehran, stating the American leader will not succeed in destroying the country, just as his predecessors failed before him.
While the US has been pressing Iran into abandoning its nuclear program and adopting a “zero enrichment” policy, Tehran has insisted such activities are its inherent right.
Last week, as a sizeable US military force gathered in the Persian Gulf, Trump said regime change in Iran “would be the best thing that could happen.”
In a televised speech on Tuesday, when representatives of Washington and Tehran met for nuclear talks in Geneva, Khamenei declared that the US will not succeed in its effort to destroy the country.
“In one of his recent speeches, the US president said that for 47 years America has not succeeded in destroying the Islamic Republic… I tell you: You will not succeed either,” Khamenei stated.
Attempts to intimidate Iran into submission will not succeed either, the supreme leader warned, suggesting the additional naval assets deployed by Washington to the region could themselves become the target. “A warship is certainly a dangerous weapon, but even more dangerous is the weapon capable of sinking it,” he said.
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