Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Friday insisted that the Islamic republic would “not back down” in the face of protesters who he called “vandals” and “saboteurs”, in a speech broadcast on state TV.
Speaking to supporters in his first comments on the escalating protests since January 3, Khamenei said US President Donald Trump’s hands “are stained with the blood of more than a thousand Iranians” and predicted the “arrogant” US leader would be “overthrown” like the imperial dynasty that ruled Iran up to the 1979 revolution.
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