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Leader warns US against using language of threats against Iran

Friday, 21 March 2025 9:55 AM [ Last Update: Friday, 21 March 2025 11:12 AM ]

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei meets with a group of Iranian people and officials in Tehran on March 21, 2025. (Photo by khamenei.ir)

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has warned the United States against using the language of threats against Iran.

In his New Persian Year speech on Friday, Ayatollah Khamenei said that the adversaries will receive a hard slap in the face if they carry out any vicious act against Iran.

The Americans should know that in dealing with Iran, they can never get anywhere using threats, he said.

They and others should know that if they take any vicious act against the Iranian nation, they will receive a hard slap in the face, the Leader added.

Ayatollah Khamenei said the Iranian nation is standing up to such viciousness and bullying against the country’s enemies and clearly declared its position in support of the Palestinian and Lebanese fighters who are defending their countries.

The Leader also dismissed the Western portrayal of the resistance front as a network of Iranian proxies, saying the country has no proxy force but supports the resistance fighters in the region.

He said the US and European officials make a big mistake when they call resistance groups in the region Iranian proxies; they insult them.

Ayatollah Khamenei said the Yemenis are "standing up and resisting (the oppressors). It is a big mistake to think they are doing this on behalf of Iran. No, it is not on behalf of Iran."

"The Yemeni people are motivated, the resistance centers in the regional countries are motivated. Iran does not need proxies. What does proxy mean?" the Leader asked.

Elsewhere in his remarks, the Leader said the resistance front incurred costs in confrontation with oppressing powers over the past Persian calendar year, but nobody should have any doubt that it will be ultimately victorious.

Referring to growing anti-Israel protests by non-Muslim nations, Ayatollah Khamenei said that Western leaders do not want to see the realities and instead cut funding to the universities whose students held demonstrations in support of Palestine.

"The nations and centers of the resistance front, including the Palestinian nation, Lebanon, and Yemen, are standing against the corrupt and wicked Zionist regime with internal and faith-based motivations," he stated.

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