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Khamenei: Iran’s ‘brilliant’ action against Israel ‘completely legal and legitimate’

By Agencies 4 October 2024, 12:19 pm 12 Edit
Iran's Supreme leader Ali Khamenei holds a rifle as he delivers a sermon denouncing Israel and justifying Hamas's October 7 slaughter in Israel, in Tehran on October 4, 2024. (X screenshot used in accordance with clause 27a of the copyright law)
Iran's Supreme leader Ali Khamenei holds a rifle as he delivers a sermon denouncing Israel and justifying Hamas's October 7 slaughter in Israel, in Tehran on October 4, 2024. (X screenshot used in accordance with clause 27a of the copyright law)

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei says in a sermon to masses in Tehran that his country will not “procrastinate or rush to carry out its duty” in confronting Israel.

“The brilliant action of our armed forces a couple of nights ago was completely legal and legitimate,” he says, referring to Iran’s massive missile attack on Israel.

Khamenei has a rifle by his side as he addresses worshipers.

Khamenei delivers the sermon — his first in nearly five years — to thousands of worshipers carrying portraits of slain leaders of Iran’s “axis of resistance” against Israel and the United States.

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