US, Israel hamstrung by resistance of Gazans: Iran Leader

Ayatollah Khamenei made the remarks during a meeting with thousands of people from Qom on Tuesday, marking the anniversary of the 1978 popular uprising in the holy city against the former US-backed Pahlavi regime.

He said that a limited number of people in a limited area of land called the Gaza Strip managed to frustrate the United States and its vassal the Zionist regime.

The Leader emphasized that in the case of Gaza, predictions about the victory of the Palestinian resistance and the defeat of the “evil Zionist regime” are coming true.

The crimes that Israel is committing against the Palestinians will be recorded in history even after the regime is wiped off the face of the earth, he asserted.

Additionally, he noted, it will not be forgotten that the patience of the Palestinian people and their resilience forced the occupying regime to retreat.

“The Zionist regime has not achieved any of its objectives after committing nearly a hundred days of crimes. What does defeat mean? That’s what defeat means. They said we will destroy Hamas, but they failed. They said we will transfer the people of Gaza, but they failed. They said we will stop the actions of the resistance, but they failed,” Ayatollah Khamenei stated.

“The resistance is alive, fresh and ready, [while] the regime is tired, humiliated and regretful with a criminal stamp on its forehead. This is the situation that exists today. It bears a lesson.”

He also vowed a harsh response to the recent Daesh terrorist attack in the city of Kerman which killed 93 people.

Ayatollah Khamenei stressed that the “sorrowful and disastrous” tragedy afflicted the nation and that the Islamic Republic insists on “finding and suppressing the real and behind-the-scene perpetrators of the incident.”

The Leader also added the enemies of the Islamic Revolution, the US, world powers and Zionists are pursuing a strategic policy that is the people’s non-participation in the upcoming parliamentary elections, saying they want to “drag people out of the field of fighting, competition and battle”.