‘Abandon terror and Make Iran Great Again!’ Donald Trump trades barbs with Ayatollah Khamenei after Iran’s supreme leader accused him of plotting to ‘stab the Iranian people in the heart with venomous daggers’
President Donald Trump has engaged in a Twitter feud with the Ayatollah of Iran, blasting the country’s ‘supreme leader’ in both English and Persian.
‘The noble people of Iran—who love America—deserve a government that’s more interested in helping them achieve their dreams than killing them for demanding respect,’ Trump tweeted on Friday after arriving at Mar-a-Lago.
‘Instead of leading Iran toward ruin, its leaders should abandon terror and Make Iran Great Again!’ he continued in a pair of tweets written in English and Persian.
Trump’s remarks were in direct response to a tweet in English from Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei, which blasted the ‘villainous’ U.S. government.
President Donald Trump has engaged in a Twitter feud with the Ayatollah of Iran, blasting the country’s ‘supreme leader’ in both English and Persian
Ayatollah Khamenei, facing intense protests from Iranian people after his military shot down a civilian airliner, led Friday prayers in Tehran on Friday for the first time in eight years
The online war of words comes a week after Iran launched ballistic missiles at U.S. forces in Iraq, resulting in no U.S. deaths, in response to the U.S. drone strike that killed Iranian General Qassem Soleimani.
Iran’s air defenses caused a catastrophe on their own soil during the ballistic missile strike, when a surface-to-air missile battery shot down a civilian passenger airliner mostly full of Iranian citizens.
Khamenei has faced intense backlash and protests from Iranians furious at their government for initially claiming that an engine malfunction had brought down the jet.
After Trump tweeted in Persian and English supporting the protesters, Khamenei launched a tweetstorm of his own, furiously blasting the American president.
‘The villainous US govt repeatedly says that they are standing by the Iranian ppl. They lie,’ wrote Khamenei.
‘If you are standing by the Iranian ppl, it is only to stab them in the heart with your venomous daggers. Of course, you have so far failed to do so, & you will certainly continue to fail,’ he said.
Kahmenei’s furious tweetstorm also took aim at U.S. allies France and Germany, as well as the ‘vicious’ UK government.
‘The threat of the French & German govts & the vicious British govt to send Iran’s case to the Security Council proved once again that they are the footmen of the US,’ he wrote.
Trump responded: ‘The so-called “Supreme Leader” of Iran, who has not been so Supreme lately, had some nasty things to say about the United States and Europe. Their economy is crashing, and their people are suffering. He should be very careful with his words!’
