Iran vows to 'make enemies taste the bitterness of new defeats': Supreme leader

Iran’s Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei has issued a warning that the country’s military is ready to inflict new defeats on its adversaries, marking Army Day with a strongly worded message, reports Al Jazeera.

In a message via Telegram, Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei said the Iranian army “has exposed their weakness and humiliation to the world,” and “its drones strike the American and Zionist criminals like lightning”.

“Its brave navy is ready to make the enemies taste the bitterness of new defeats,” he warned.


He paid tribute to his predecessor and assassinated father, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, describing him as one who “made the most effort since the first decade of the revolution to preserve the army” and enhance its capabilities.

Mojtaba Khamenei has not been seen in public since taking over from his father following his killing at the start of the war in February.

He closed his message with condolences to the families of those killed in what he described as “the war imposed by the United States and the Zionist regime against the great nation of Iran”.