Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei said on Friday that the US is frustrated over its military campaign in Afghanistan and Iraq, warning that Washington is now trying to devise cultural and political ploys to harm the countries of the region from inside.
Ayatollah Khamenei, delivering a sermon at Tehran's Imam Khomeini Mosalla (prayer ground), said the US has already realized that its military plans will no longer bear fruit in the Middle East, and cautioned that the White House leaders have now resorted to new schemes to push forward their campaign in the region.
Quoted by IRNA, he said the recent remarks by US officials to promote democracy in the Middle East depict that they are pursuing sinister policies in the region, and called on the regional states to exercise prudence toward the positions of the American leaders.
"Whoever is familiar with the policies of US leaders over the past years from World War II onward feels ashamed to hear the remarks by the president of such a regime to claim that it is the custodian of democracy," the supreme leader said.
The Iranian leader highlighted the killings of civilians by US troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, and lashed out at US leaders for refusing to apologize to the people of those states for the killings.
Ayatollah Khamenei stressed that the US is everyday receiving serious blows in Afghanistan and Iraq, adding that the White House, from the position of an aggressor, has realized that its previous plots will not work anymore.
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