US President Donald Trump and Iran's former Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. (Photos via AP)
“I saved him from a very ugly and ignominious death.”
By Vered Weiss, World Israel News
US President Donald Trump used harsh words on Saturday in response to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s claim that the US was exaggerating the damage its strikes had inflicted on Iran’s nuclear facilities and that the US forces in the region would receive an additional “slap.”
Trump wrote on social media, “During the last few days, I was working on the possible removal of sanctions, and other things, which would have given a much better chance to Iran at a full, fast, and complete recovery.”
“But instead I get hit with a statement of anger, hatred, and disgust, and immediately dropped all work on sanction relief and more,” Trump wrote, calling Khamenei’s remarks “blatant and foolish.”
“As a man of great faith, he is not supposed to lie,” Trump said, and repeated earlier statements that the nuclear sites were “obliterated.”
Trump also repeated a claim he posted on social media during the conflict that he knew where Khamenei was hiding and added that he saved him from being assassinated by Israel.
“I saved him from a very ugly and ignominious death,” Trump said.
This is in contrast to Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz’s statement on Friday that Israeli intelligence didn’t know precisely where Khamenei was hiding, but that Israeli forces were prepared to kill him if given the chance.
Trump recounted how he urged Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to abort a mission to send Israel Air Force planes to strike Iran to retaliate for a deadly missile barrage after the ceasefire was activated.
It was going to be the biggest attack of the war by far,” Trump said.
“Iran has to get back into the world order flow, or things will only get worse for them,” he added.
“They are always so angry, hostile and unhappy, and look at what it has gotten them: A burned out, blown up country, with no future, a decimated military, a horrible economy and death all around them,” Trump continued.
Addressing Khamenei directly, “You have to tell the truth. You got beat to hell.”
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