Tag: Ayatollah

Ayatollah Khamenei kicks off Iran’s presidential election

Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has voted in the presidential election in Iran. Khamenei urged the nation to participate actively in the vote to “prove the correctness and honesty of the system of the Islamic Republic.” The religious leader cast his vote in a high-security zone in the centre of Tehran before speaking to […]

Iran’s Ayatollah Khamenei praises Islamist groups for Israel fight

Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has once again praised Islamist groups for their conflict with Israel. “An army that claims to be one of the strongest in the world has failed in its own country,” Khamenei told thousands of supporters in Tehran on Monday. The Gaza conflict has put the “Zionist regime on a […]

No Israeli embassy is safe, advisor to Iran’s Ayatollah Khamenei says

An advisor to Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei says Israeli diplomatic missions around the world could become targets of retaliatory attacks in response to the bombing of the Iranian embassy in Syria blamed on Israel. “The [anti-Israeli] resistance front is ready for all possible retaliation scenarios and no Israeli embassy worldwide is safe from […]

Iranian Ayatollah Khamenei threatens Israel after strike on Damascus

Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has threatened Israel with retaliation after two Iranian generals were killed in a suspected Israeli attack on the Iranian embassy compound in Damascus. “The malicious regime will be punished by our brave men,” he said on Tuesday in a statement a day after the strike. “We will make sure that they […]