With his defense installations in rags and his nuclear program in tatters, Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei declared victory over America on Thursday.
Khamenei took his version of the facts to social media in a series of posts, all of which were aimed at America.
“My congratulations on our dear Iran’s victory over the US regime. The US regime entered the war directly because it felt that if it didn’t, the Zionist regime would be completely destroyed. It entered the war in an effort to save that regime but achieved nothing,” he posted on X.
The Islamic Republic delivered a heavy slap to the US’s face. It attacked and inflicted damage on the Al-Udeid Air Base, which is one of the key US bases in the region.
— Khamenei.ir (@khamenei_ir) June 26, 2025
“The Islamic Republic delivered a heavy slap to the US’s face. It attacked and inflicted damage on the Al-Udeid Air Base, which is one of the key US bases in the region,” he wrote in another post on X.
And in another post, he said Iran has claws to attack the U.S.
“The fact that the Islamic Republic has access to key US