TEHRAN – Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei Wednesday dubbed someUS officials “first-class idiots” as he ridiculed them for predicting thecollapse of the Islamic Republic.
“Some US officials pretend that they are mad. Of course I don’t agree withthat, but they are first-class idiots,” he said in speech in Tehran, quotedon his official Twitter feed.
Khamenei was having a dig at US officials who had predicted there would beregime change in Iran by the end of 2018.
“A while ago, a US politician had said, among a gathering of terrorists andthugs, that he hopes to celebrate this Christmas in Tehran,” Khamenei said,according to his Twitter feed.
“Christmas was a few days ago. This is how US calculations work.”
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It was not clear to which US official he was referring, but members ofPresident Donald Trump’s administration have called for regime change andpredicted it would happen soon.
This has included National Security Advisor John Bolton — a long-timeregime change advocate — who often speaks at gatherings of the exiledPeople’s Mujahedeen of Iran (MEK) opposition group, considered a terroristcult by Tehran’s leaders.
“Before 2019 we here will celebrate in Tehran,” Bolton told an MEK meetingin Paris in July 2017. – APP/AFP
