Donald Trump says Iran’s supreme leader Khamenei ‘should be very careful with his words’ after ‘American clowns’ insult
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US President Donald Trump said Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei should be very careful about what he says after Khamenei harshly criticised the United States in a Friday prayers sermon.
“The so-called ‘Supreme Leader’ of Iran, who has not been so Supreme lately, had some nasty things to say about the United States and Europe,” Trump said in a tweet.
“Their economy is crashing, and their people are suffering. He should be very careful with his words!”
Khamenei had lashed out at Western countries as he led Friday prayers in Tehran for the first time in eight years, dismissing “American clowns” who he said pretend to support the Iranian nation but want to stick their “poisoned dagger” into its back.
The top cleric used his rare appearance at the weekly prayers to deliver a fiery address in which he insisted Iran would not bow to US pressure after months of crushing sanctions and a series of recent crises – from the American killing of top Iranian general Qassem Soleimani to Iran’s accidental shooting down of a Ukrainian passenger plane.