{"id":27315,"date":"2025-10-20T16:08:01","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T16:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fctnewsgazette.com\/?p=27315"},"modified":"2025-10-20T16:08:04","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T16:08:04","slug":"khamenei-mocks-trumps-claim-of-destroying-irans-nuclear-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fctnewsgazette.com\/?p=27315","title":{"rendered":"Khamenei Mocks Trump\u2019s Claim of Destroying Iran\u2019s Nuclear Program"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Iran\u2019s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has, on Monday, rebuked U.S. President Donald Trump\u2019s claim that American airstrikes destroyed Iran\u2019s nuclear industry, saying Trump is delusional.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe US President boasts that they\u2019ve bombed and destroyed Iran\u2019s nuclear industry. Very well, in your dreams!,\u201d Khamenei tweed on X.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The US President boasts that they\u2019ve bombed and destroyed Iran\u2019s nuclear industry. Very well, in your dreams!<\/p>&mdash; Khamenei.ir (@khamenei_ir) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/khamenei_ir\/status\/1980239749236560377?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 20, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump had told Israeli lawmakers at the Knesset that U.S. strikes in June \u201ccompletely obliterated\u201d Iran\u2019s nuclear infrastructure, including the Fordow enrichment facility. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The United States carried out airstrikes on three Iranian nuclear sites on June 21, 2025, but early U.S. intelligence assessments reported damage rather than the destruction of core systems, according to a CNN report on June 24.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In his subsequent tweets, Khamenei blasts U. S. peace deal proposal to Iran as an imposition rather than a deal. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;The US President says that he makes deals and wants to make a deal with Iran. &#8216;Dealing&#8217; where the outcome is predetermined using coercion isn\u2019t a way of dealing. It\u2019s a way of imposing something, and the Iranian nation will never submit to such impositions,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He added, &#8220;The US President points out that there are wars going on in West Asia. Well, you\u2019re the ones who start the wars. In fact, it\u2019s the US that starts and creates the wars. In addition to their acts of terrorism, they\u2019re a warmonger. What\u2019s the purpose of all their military bases (in the region)?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Khamenei\u2019s statement drew global reactions online, with supporters urging Iran to continue developing its nuclear programme while critics hailed the U.S. attack on the Iranian nuclear facilities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran\u2019s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has, on Monday, rebuked U.S. President Donald Trump\u2019s claim that American airstrikes destroyed Iran\u2019s nuclear industry, saying Trump is delusional. \u201cThe US President boasts that they\u2019ve bombed and destroyed Iran\u2019s nuclear industry. Very well, in your dreams!,\u201d Khamenei tweed on X. Trump had told Israeli lawmakers at the Knesset that U.S. strikes in June \u201ccompletely obliterated\u201d Iran\u2019s nuclear infrastructure, including the Fordow enrichment facility. The United States carried out airstrikes on three Iranian nuclear sites on June 21, 2025, but early U.S. intelligence assessments reported damage rather than the destruction of core systems, according to a CNN report on June 24. In his subsequent tweets, Khamenei blasts U. S. peace deal proposal to Iran as an imposition rather than a deal. &#8220;The US President says that he makes deals and wants to make a deal with Iran. &#8216;Dealing&#8217; where the outcome is predetermined using coercion isn\u2019t a way of dealing. It\u2019s a way of imposing something, and the Iranian nation will never submit to such impositions,&#8221; he said. He added, &#8220;The US President points out that there are wars going on in West Asia. Well, you\u2019re the ones who start the wars. In fact, it\u2019s the US that starts and creates the wars. In addition to their acts of terrorism, they\u2019re a warmonger. What\u2019s the purpose of all their military bases (in the region)?&#8221; Khamenei\u2019s statement drew global reactions online, with supporters urging Iran to continue developing its nuclear programme while critics hailed the U.S. attack on the Iranian nuclear facilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27316,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-diplomacy-and-foreign-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fctnewsgazette.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fctnewsgazette.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fctnewsgazette.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fctnewsgazette.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fctnewsgazette.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27315"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fctnewsgazette.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27317,"href":"https:\/\/fctnewsgazette.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27315\/revisions\/27317"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fctnewsgazette.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fctnewsgazette.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fctnewsgazette.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fctnewsgazette.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}