Iran’s Supreme Leader Says Country ‘Crushed’ Israel

In his comments since the Iran-Israel conflict ended in a ceasefire, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei congratulated “the great nation of Iran” for its “victory over the fake Zionist regime,”CNN reports.

Said Khamenei: “Despite all that noise, and with all those claims, the Zionist regime almost collapsed and was crushed under the blows of the Islamic Republic.”

He said the United States entered the conflict with Israel “because they felt that if they did not enter, the Zionist regime would be destroyed.”