US, Europeans Untrustworthy: Leader
“Officials should distinguish friend from foe and never get deceived. Sometimes the enemy flashes its teeth, sometimes it throws punches and sometimes it makes smiles; these are not different and even their smile is out of hostility,” the Leader said, addressing a crowd of thousands of people from the northwestern province of East Azarbaijan on Monday.
“America’s animosity is bare; the Europeans are also deceitful today,” he explained.
Drawing attention to the many problems that the US is dealing with both inside and outside of its borders, the Leader said while “no enemy is to be underestimated,” the reality is that Washington is “weak” today.
“You can see today that our main enemy, the US, is struggling,” he asserted. “It is struggling with internal issues and its struggling with external issues and it is also tussling with leaders of the countries” that it has conflicts of interest with.
“Yet these stupid officials or first-class idiots get angry and labor themselves to death, holding the Warsaw summit which gets nowhere; they invite their weak and wavering governments to plot against Iran but they get nowhere.”
Ayatollah Khamenei was referring to the recent anti-Iran meeting in the Polish capital which failed to produce any results despite Washington’s high hopes; rather, it created serious divisions among them.
“These are tell-tale signs of the enemy’s weakness. When the enemy is weak, it blows hot air,” the Leader said. “This hot air should not cause any worries among our officials.”
Elsewhere, the Leader said the fact that millions of people celebrated the 40th anniversary of the Revolution, once again proved that the enemies cannot hurt the Iranian nation.
“Of course, the adversaries would deny that millions of people showed up but they do know and they do understand that as long as a nation holds its ground like this, enemies can do it no harm,” Ayatollah Khamenei said.
Millions of Iranians took to the streets last week to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution, much to the dismay of US leaders who had said the Islamic Republic would not survive to see the event.
Every year on February 11, the Iranian nation turns out in droves to highlight support for the Revolution which ended 2,500 years of monarchical rule in Iran and replaced the US-backed Pahlavi regime with an Islamic Republic.
This year, demonstrators in many cities braved the cold weather as they descended on main crossroads to renew their allegiance to the country's Islamic principles at a time of rising economic and political pressure coming from the US.
