JAKARTA - Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei finally spoke out after the Iranian-Israeli ceasefire. Khamenei congratulated the Iranian great nation for its victory over Israel.
"Regardless of all that commotion, and with all those claims, the Zionist regime almost collapsed and collapsed under the blow of the Islamic Republic," Khamenei was quoted as saying by the IRNA government news agency as reported by CNN, Thursday, May 26.
Khamenei also mentioned the United States involved in helping Israel.
"Because they feel that if they do not enter, the Zionist regime will be destroyed," he said.
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Earlier, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel in its 12 days of war with Iran had eliminated Iran's nuclear threat and was determined to thwart any attempt by Tehran to revive its program.
"We have eliminated two direct existential threats to us, the threat of nuclear destruction (with) and the threat of annihilation by 20,000 ballistic missiles," he said in a video statement reported by Reuters, Wednesday, June 25.
If anyone in Iran tries to revive this project, we will work with the same determination and strength to thwart such an attempt. I repeat, Iran will not have nuclear weapons, "said the Israeli Prime Minister.
He said Israel had never had better friends at the White House than President Donald Trump, whose military brought down a massive bunker destroyer bomb on Iran's underground nuclear site in a weekend attack.
"Our friend President Trump has united on our side in an unprecedented way. Under his direction, the United States military destroyed the underground enrichment site at Fordow," Netanyahu said.
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