Iran’s Khamenei says Arab states that befriend Israel ‘bring misery to Muslims’

Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei slams Muslim nations that maintain ties and friendships with Israel, saying it “brings misery to Muslims.”

“Friendship with the unbelievers brings misery to Muslims, like the friendship some Muslim states have with the Zionist regime, exchanging kind words and establishing economic or political relations,” Khamenei writes on Twitter after attending the 35th International Quran Contest in Tehran.

That the U.S. president shamelessly says, ‘without the U.S., heads of some Arab states cannot maintain themselves even for a week’, is a humiliation for Muslims. pic.twitter.com/2GtuQX3g7k

— Khamenei.ir (@khamenei_ir) April 26, 2018

“Muslims should stand firmly against the US and other domineering powers’ bullying,” he says, repeating comments he reportedly made to the contest’s participants and audience. “If they don’t observe that, they will be humiliated.”

Responding to a comment made recently by US President Donald Trump, Khamenei said: “That the US president shamelessly says, ‘without the US, heads of some Arab states cannot maintain themselves even for a week,’ is a humiliation for Muslims.”

— Michael Bachner