The Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution, Imam Sayyed Ali Khamenei, says Iran has always opposed war and destruction anywhere in the world, demanding an end to the war in Ukraine.
Imam Khamenei made the remarks during a televised speech on the auspicious occasion of Eid al-Mab’ath, which marks the day on which Prophet Muhammad was chosen as God’s final messenger and started his prophetic mission.
He slammed the United States as a mafia regime, saying Ukraine has fallen victim to the US’s policies and the crises created by Washington.
“The US disrupted the stability of the country by interfering in its affairs and organizing rallies and creating a color coup,” he said.
“We oppose the killing of people and the destruction of the infrastructure of nations,” he added.
He highlighted that Western powers cannot be trusted and their support for their puppet regimes is not genuine.
Both Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and former Afghan president Ashraf Ghani have acknowledged that the US simply abandoned them amid their domestic crises, Ayatollah Khamenei said.
The Leader also called the US a perfect example and manifestation of modern ignorance, saying it feeds on the crises it makes all around the world.
“The American regime is a perfect example of modern ignorance. This regime is a crisis-creating and crisis-consuming regime, and it feeds of creating crises in the world,” he maintained.
Imam Khamenei went on to say that Western nations use science to slaughter and plunder other nations.
“America is a regime in which immorality is promoted, discrimination is increasing exponentially, and national wealth is being exploited by the rich and wealthy,” he noted.
“A country as rich as the United States is in a situation where people die on the streets when it gets hotter or colder. What do these events mean?” Ayatollah Khamenei noted.
The leader also pointed to the West’s double standards in dealing with the crisis in Ukraine, stating that Western countries support the killing of Yemeni people, but they call for an end to the Ukraine crisis.
He stated that the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group was created by the US itself, denouncing Washington for plundering oil resources in eastern Syria, stealing Afghanistan’s assets, and supporting Israeli crimes against Palestinians.
In a televised speech early on Thursday, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a “special military operation” aimed at “demilitarization” of the Donetsk and Lugansk Republics in eastern Ukraine, collectively known as Donbas.
The two regions broke away from Ukraine in 2014 after refusing to recognize a Western-backed Ukrainian government that had overthrown a democratically-elected Russia-friendly administration.
Announcing the operation, Putin said the mission was aimed at “defending people who for eight years are suffering persecution and genocide by the Kiev regime.”
The United Nations Refugee Agency says more than 120,000 Ukrainians have left the country since Russia started the military campaign against Ukraine on February 24.
Source: Iranian media (edited by Al-Manar English Website)
