It is a much awaited speech. This Friday, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei declared that the "bitter" drama of the Ukrainian plane shot down on January 8 in Tehran should not make us forget the "sacrifice" of General Qassem Soleimani, eliminated by the United States in Baghdad five days earlier.
This air disaster is a "bitter accident" that "burned our hearts," said Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in a sermon delivered in Tehran during the great weekly Muslim prayer, cut repeatedly by the slogans "Death to the 'America' and 'Death to Israel', chanted by the crowd. "But some have tried to (use it) in such a way as to (make) forget the great martyrdom and sacrifice" of Soleimani, he said.
"Is this the people of Iran? "
The Iranian armed forces admitted to having mistakenly shot down a Ukrainian International Airlines Boeing 737 shortly after taking off from Tehran. The 176 people on board, mostly Iranians and Canadians, perished in the disaster. The drama and the time (three days) taken by the Iranian armed forces to recognize their responsibility have provoked since Saturday scattered demonstrations of anger against the authorities in Tehran and in other cities.
Praising Soleimani's action outside the country's borders for the “security” of the Iranian nation, Ayatollah Khamenei affirmed that the people were in favor of “firmness” and “resistance” in the face of the country's enemies. . On January 3, the United States, Iran's sworn enemy, killed in a drone attack in Baghdad General Soleimani, a leader of the Revolutionary Guards, Iran's ideological army, and architect of the strategy of regional influence of the country.
"These few hundred people who insulted the portrait of General Soleimani, are these the people of Iran? Or the crowds of millions on the streets? He asked. The Iranian number one there seemed to be referring to demonstrators who allegedly tore up a portrait of General Soleimani in Tehran and the huge crowds who moved around the remains of Soleimani after his return to the country. Ali Khamenei also accused the United States of "lying" when they say they support the Iranian people, saying that they are basically only "stabbing (the people) with (their) poisoned dagger".
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