US on Decline: Iran’s Assembly of Experts Chief
Addressing the eighth annual meeting of the assembly on Monday, the senior cleric said while Iran is moving ahead and the future belongs to the country, the US power is plummeting.
He said former American president Donald Trump disgraced the US and showed to the world that they are not committed to anything.
He added that while the United States’ power is declining and coming to an end, Iran is gaining strength “and the future is ours.”
“Our strength comes from the strength of God, and the weakness of America is beyond our imagination,” he said, adding, “Today, they (American rulers) are at each other’s throats.”
Elsewhere in his remarks, Ayatollah Jannati paid homage to Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani, who was assassinated during a US strike in Iraq on January 3, 2020, directly ordered by Trump.
“May God damn Trump and America and those who played a role in the assassination of this beloved martyr and made a nation suffer his loss,” he said.
The Americans did not dare respond to Iran’s attack against Ain al-Assad airbase in western Iraq, where US forces were stationed, said Ayatollah Jannati, who is also the head of the Guardian Council, an oversight body which examines the qualifications of candidates in elections.
Five days after the assassination of General Soleimani, who was in Baghdad on an official visit at the time, Iran retaliated by firing dozens of missiles at Ain al-Assad air base in al-Anbar Governorate, western Iraq, as well as another US air base in Erbil, declaring that the attacks were part of its promised “tough revenge” for the assassination.
