Iran supreme leader claims 'remarkable victories' against US, Israel

Published May 26, 2026 Updated May 26, 2026 12:43pm

The Iranian supreme leader further said that Iran’s armed forces, “alongside the fighters of the Resistance Front — especially dear Lebanon — achieved remarkable victories against the two terrorist and fully armed American-Zionist armies” in the recent war.

He asserted that Iran “succeeded in rendering the Zionist regime helpless under its devastating blows” in the 2025 Iran-Israel conflict, delivering a “harsh slap to the aggressor America, and thwarting the enemy in its goal of Iran’s surrender”.

Khamenei noted solidified “threads of connection” among the Islamic Ummah and the Resistance Front, “from Iran to Lebanon, Palestine, Iraq and Syria, from Africa and Yemen to Afghanistan, Pakistan and all the free nations of the world”.

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