Iran’s supreme chief, Mojataba Khamenei, denied on Friday Tehran’s position in latest assaults in Turkey and Oman, claiming that it was a “false flag tactic” by Israel as a substitute.
“I must also comment that the assaults towards Turkey and Oman – each of which have good relations with us – concentrating on sure places in these nations, had been on no account carried out by the armed forces of the Islamic republic or the opposite forces of the Resistance Entrance.
“It is a ploy by the Zionist enemy (Israel), using the false flag tactic to create discord between the Islamic republic and its neighbors, and it might additionally happen in another nations,” Khamenei mentioned in an announcement printed on his Telegram channel and official Iranian media on the event of Nowruz, the Persian New 12 months.
That is Mojtaba’s second message since changing into Iran’s supreme chief following the assassination of his father and the earlier supreme chief, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Ali Khamenei was assassinated on February 28, when the US and Israel launched assaults on Iran, triggering a battle that has expanded to the remainder of the Center East as effectively and the impression of which is being felt elsewhere, too, amid a worldwide gas crunch.
In the course of the struggle, Gulf nations have additionally come underneath assault, and whereas Tehran accepts accountability for among the assaults concentrating on US bases and property, it denies having a task in others. Iran has beforehand additionally denied accountability for assaults in Turkey and Oman.
Mojtaba additionally prolonged greetings to the Iranians on the event of Nowruz and Eidul Fitr.
He additionally prolonged condolences to the households of the “martyrs” of the continued struggle, which he mentioned was imposed on Iran.
Mojtaba recalled that on the struggle’s first day, “with tearful eyes and unhappy and damaged hearts, we bade farewell to” to Ali Khamenei. He additionally recalled the youngsters killed within the strike on a faculty in Minab and different “martyrs of this struggle”.
He mentioned that the present struggle was going down after the enemy suffered from phantasm that it might create “worry and despair” by killing the top of the institution and a lot of influential navy figures.
Nonetheless, he mentioned, the individuals dealt the enemy a “complicated blow” to the purpose the place “he started to utter quite a few contradictory phrases and lots of absurdities, which is an indication of lack of mindfulness and the existence of cognitive weak point”.
He additionally suggested the nation’s media to chorus from specializing in weaknesses, saying that “one of many enemy’s programs of motion is his media operations, which in lately, specifically, intends to undermine nationwide unity and consequently nationwide safety by concentrating on the minds and souls of some among the many individuals”.
He additional mentioned that folks’s livelihoods and welfare ought to be thought of a “point of interest” towards the “financial struggle waged by the enemy”.
Speaking about Iran’s neighbors, he mentioned, “For a very long time, I’ve recognized Pakistan to be a rustic that was particularly beloved by our martyred chief, a sentiment that was evident within the emotion in his voice throughout Friday prayer sermons over the devastating floods that threatened the lives of our spiritual brothers there.
“For varied causes, I’ve all the time held this view myself and haven’t kept away from expressing it in varied conferences,” he mentioned.
He took the chance to induce Pakistan and Afghanistan to “set up higher relations with one another”, including that he was “able to take the mandatory steps”.
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