TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran's supreme leader says President Donald Trump is a "clown" who only pretends to support the Iranian people but will “push a poisonous dagger” into their backs.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei struck a defiant tone in his first Friday sermon in Tehran in eight years.
He said the mass funerals for Iran's top general, who was killed in a U.S. airstrike earlier this month, show that the Iranian people support the Islamic Republic despite its recent trials.
Khamenei said Iran's retaliatory missile strike against U.S. forces in Iraq had dealt a “blow to America's image” as a superpower.
Iran's supreme leader holds sermon; US now says 11 American troops injured in Iran missile attack
