Iran’s Ayatollah Khamenei issues claims of victory over Israel, “a big slap in the face” to the U.S.

“I offer my congratulations on the victory on the fallacious Zionist regime,” said a message published on Thursday on the supreme Iranian chief of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Another Post -added The daring affirmation that the Israeli government “was practically knocked out and crushed under the blows of the Islamic Republic”.

In a video address recorded to his nation – his first public remarks since the A ceasefire of American mail with Israel has entered into force Tuesday – Khamenei went further, suggesting that “a large number of military targets and others” in Israel had been targeted by Iranian missiles.

They may have been targeted, but in reality, the 12 days of missile launches from Iran have seen relatively few rockets escape the air defenses of Israel. In total, 28 people were killed, and none of them were identified as government representatives, but rather civilians killed when missiles have struck buildings and cities.

Israel’s strikes on Iran have killed at least 30 military commanders, on the other hand, and, in combination with American strikes during the weekend, “erased” the country’s nuclear program, according to President Trump. Human rights activists based in the United States in Iran, which relies on a network of sources in the country, said on Wednesday that strikes killed at least 1,054 people in Iran, including a total of 318 soldiers.

While the complete evaluations of damage inflicted are still under compilation, the heads of two US intelligence agencies said on Wednesday that “New” intelligence indicated The Iranian nuclear enrichment program has probably been fell by “years”. The office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said earlier on Wednesday that the country’s own intelligence assessment had shown that the Iranian nuclear program had been awarded “many years”.

Khamenei had a very different socket – again, without any details or proof. He said that the United States had joined the strikes of Israel “because he thought that if he did not do so, the Zionist regime would be completely annihilated, then they entered the war to prevent this.”

“They failed to do anything important for our nuclear installations,” he said, adding that Trump had “on the spot at the whole” and even that Iran had “gave a large slap opposite” by attacking the Al-Uudeid air base in Qatar, which houses thousands of American forces.

But none of the missiles at the dozen Iran shot on the sprawling base struck him. They were intercepted, despite the affirmation of the Ayatollah of “a lot of damage” to the site

Anxiety in Iran fueling the questionable affirmations of Ayatollah?

On Thursday, Khamenei’s remarks were heavy on rhetoric and practically devoid of everything, and they may have been more aimed at the Iranian people than around the world.

Iran’s theocratic leaders, who swept power with the 1979 Islamic Revolution, which overthrew a pro-Western government led by the Shah’s royal family, has long maintained close control over all the country’s media, and many Iranians have little access to external information.

However, in particular among the younger and more informed generations in technology, there is an understanding of the degree to which people of Iran do not enjoy freedoms that many other countries guarantee – and this has led to several popular protest updates over the past decade. All were suddenly canceled by the authorities, but Netanyahu called very quickly after Israel began to bomb Iran for new anti-government demonstrations in the country, urging the Iranians to take advantage of the attacks, who, according to him, had put the Ayatollah in its lowest position of all time.

Khamenei has not yet been seen live or in public from the ceasefire, and his precise fate remained clear Thursday after the publication of the pre-recorded video message.

While the ceasefire allowed the Israelis to revel in a return to normality on Wednesday, with the 12 -day lifting security measures in wartimeIn Tehran, anxiety has always appeared rigid.

The CBS News correspondent Imtiaz Tyab, and his team obtained Iranian visas to enter the country earlier in the week, and they were the first American broadcast network to enter the Tehran since the start of the war. But it took them an arduous journey through arid landscapes and on the other side of the Turkey border To reach the Iranian capitalBecause the country’s airspace had been closed.

Tyab said that the Iranian capital was very different this week compared to its previous visit about five years earlier, when, despite the authoritarian government control over daily life, it was a dynamic metropolis. Thursday, despite the truce, most of the companies remained closed and the feeling of nervousness was palpable.