Kamal Ghorui
Iran’s Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei claimed victory over US and Israel in a written message for the Persian New Year, Nowruz on Friday. “At the moment, due to the particular unity that has been created between you our compatriots — despite all the differences in religious, intellectual, cultural and political origins — the enemy has been defeated,” he said.He further said that US and Israeli attacks were based on an illusion that by killing top leaders they could cause the overthrow of the government, AP reported.He claimed that attacks in Turkey and Oman are part of a “scheme by the Zionist enemy” to create divisions among regional nations.“We share with neighboring countries the creed, the interests, and the confrontation against the forces of global arrogance,” Khamenei said.He commended Iranians for “building a nationwide defensive front and strongholds across cities, neighbourhoods, and mosques, delivering such a bewildering blow that the enemy fell into contradictions and irrational statements.”Mojtaba is yet to appear in public after being named to succeed his father Ali Khamenei who was killed in a US, Israeli airstrike at the a start of the war.Earlier in the day, Iran released a video of Khamenei, teaching religious studies to a group of students.More than 1,300 people have been killed in Iran since the conflict began. In Lebanon, Israeli airstrikes have left over 1,000 dead and displaced more than a million people, according to official estimates. In Israel, at least 15 people have been killed in Iranian missile attacks, while the United States has reported the deaths of at least 13 of its military personnel in the ongoing hostilities.
