Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei calls America “the most oppressive and merciless entity” in the world and claims it created the Islamic State terror group.
“The US created #ISIS, the US president mentioned that in his presidential campaigns. Besides creating it, the US also supported them: it’s likely American groups, like the former Black Water, trained them on some of the barbaric and violent tactics,” says Khamenei in a series of Twitter posts.
“Backing the 70 years of oppression against the people of #Palestine, supporting the massacre and oppression of the people of #Yemen are clear examples of the US’s tyranny,” he adds.
“Despite all these instances of mercilessness and hardheartedness, the US regime claims, in its international propaganda, that it advocates for Human Rights, rights of the oppressed and animals rights. One should expose them by providing facts.”
In this picture released by official website of the office of the Iranian supreme leader, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei attends a meeting with a group Qom residents, in a mosque at his residence in Tehran, Iran, January 9, 2018. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)
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