Key address ‘Slap America’ by defeating its sanctions, Khamenei says

The people of Iran face a “sensitive” time, but “America must receive another slap from the people of Iran with the defeat of sanctions,” Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said in a key address broadcast by state television yesterday.

Khamenei was speaking to tens of thousands of members of the Basij militia and top Revolutionary Guards leaders gathered in a stadium in Tehran.

“The situation of the nation, region and world is sensitive, especially for us the people of Iran,” Khamenei said.

“Sensitive in this respect that on one hand we have the shouting of the arrogant powers and politicians of imperialist America... on another hand the economic problems of the nation and the tightness of the livelihood of a large portion of the weak people in the country.”

The Iranian rial has lost approximately 75 per cent of its value since the beginning of 2018.