Trump lying about using power to establish regional peace: Leader
Leader of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei asserted on Saturday that US President Donald Trump was lying about using power to establish peace in region.
“He (Trump) and American officials, US administrations, used power in order to massacre Gaza, to wage war wherever they could, and to support their own mercenaries,” Ayatollah Khamenei said in a meeting with a group of teachers and educators from different cities and provinces across the country.
Ayatollah Khamenei added that the US uses its power to give “10-ton bombs to the Zionist (Israeli) regime to drop on the heads of Gaza’s children.”
The Leader underlined that power, nevertheless, could be used to foster peace and security, and that explains why Iran is striving every day to boost its national might.
The Leader’s comments came the day after Trump concluded a four-day tour of Persian Gulf countries – Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates – which was followed quickly by the start of a new Israeli military offensive in the Gaza Strip.
“None of the statements made during the US president’s visit to the region are worthy of a response at all. The level of Trump’s remarks is so low that it is a source of embarrassment for the speaker and a source of disgrace for the American nation,” the Leader said.
Elsewhere in his remarks, Ayatollah Khamenei stated that the US president is offering regional Arab states a model that, in his own words, these countries cannot live without the US for even ten days.
“This model has definitely failed,” the Leader noted. “With the efforts by regional nations, the US must and will leave this region.”
“Undoubtedly, the source of corruption, war, and conflict in this region is the Zionist regime – a dangerous, deadly cancerous tumor that must be uprooted;
it will be uprooted,” he said at the event in Tehran.