Continuing his written address, Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei says the US “has once again revealed its true, unmasked face, so that this dark episode of criminality and broken promises serves as yet another indisputable testament to the US’s dishonesty, irrationality, unreliability, and malicious nature”.

“Coercion, totalitarianism, and brutality are inseparable components of the US creed and doctrine,” he adds.