Khamenei ‘reinvents’ history by stating that Iran defeated the US and Israel: “Those who started the war suffered more”

The highest Iranian political and religious authority affirmed that the United States and Israel “they came to cause trouble, were defeated and returned empty-handed” in a war that, he assured, they had been preparing for 20 years.

In a speech in honor of the basiji -the Islamic militia that is part of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard-, Yemeni has stressed that “they did not achieve any of their objectives”, one of which, he said, was “deceive the Iranian people and drag them along.”

“Even those who have problems with the system stood together,” he said.

During the 12 days of conflict,Tel Aviv bombed the Persian country daily with attacks on civil, military and atomic facilities and assassinated about 30 senior military officials and 10 nuclear scientists.

Washington joined the Israeli military action with bombings of three of the most important Iranian nuclear facilities, which according to Tehran have stopped its ability to enrich uranium.

Iran responded to Israeli aggression with missile attacks against the Jewish State that caused about 300 deaths and attacked a US base in Qatar without any casualties.

“They couldn’t defeat us”

Khamenei acknowledged that his country suffered significant damage and casualties – a thousand Iranian dead in total– in his speech this Thursday, but he assured that those who “started the war” suffered even more.

According to the religious, The United States used its most modern weaponsincluding submarines and fighters, but failed to defeat the Islamic Republic.

The war began on June 13 and came to an end on the 24th with a ceasefire sponsored by the United States that remains in place to this day.

During the conflict, the Islamic Republic began to embrace a pre-Islamic nationalism to mitigate the disaffection of a significant part of the population with the authorities and the political system, something that continues now.