Iranians show support for Khamenei by attending funerals, speaker says
The Iranian people demonstrated their appreciation for Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s “wise and courageous management” during funerals for senior military commanders and nuclear scientists, said Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf in a Sunday speech at the parliament.
The US and Israel suffered a “historic and severe defeat” in the recent 12-day war, he said again.
The official funeral was held in Tehran yesterday, but Khamenei, who has remained hidden in a protected underground bunker since the start of the Israel-Iran conflict, did not attend.
An opposition figure in Iran who had been under house arrest for many years says Israel’s influence is not limited to the military and their influence is everywhere.
“Any sensible and concerned person can feel their footprint in security and political decisions,” said the Green Movement leader Mehdi Karroubi.
“The country’s security capabilities should be focused on containing Israel, not political critics, cultural figures, or even women’s hair,” he added.
US officials have lost credibility by relying on Persian-language media mercenaries to influence Iranian youth, Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said Sunday.
“US officials who had lost all credibility by buying their Persian-language media mercenaries with green cards, visas, and a handful of dollars have now personally stepped in to carry out psychological operations on the minds and consciences of Iranian youth... However, it is clear that they will fail again,” he said without naming any media.
“The Iranian nation knows these snakes, and they will again fail to break the unity and solidarity of the nation and to shatter Iran, because these poor people have understood the Iranian people through the lens of a few foreign-paid, contemptible, and ridiculous puppets, and their understanding of this nation is incomplete and false,” Ghalibaf said.
“The gambler Trump’s positions have no credibility. The disrespectful US president, in his imaginary virtual world, reinstates sanctions that have not been lifted.”
“His positions are part of a psychological operation plan to instill fear in the people.”
Mehdi Nemati, deputy for cultural and social affairs of the Law Enforcement Intelligence Organization (FARAJA), was killed in Israeli attacks, Iran’s police command announced Sunday.
Nemati had fought alongside Qassem Soleimani in Syria and Iraq, state media reported.
71 people died in the Israeli strike on Evin Prison, Asghar Jahangir, spokesperson for Iran’s judiciary said Sunday.
The victims included administrative staff, soldiers, inmates, prisoners’ family members visiting or handling legal matters, and neighbors living near the prison, according to Jahangir.
