In rare public address, supreme leader defends missile attack on Israel and makes appeal for Muslim unity
, has vowed that Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in Gaza will emerge with new leaders and will not back down, after a wave of Israeli strikes that have killed the groups’ senior figures.
The Iranian leadership aimed to show through the size of the crowd attending the Grand Mosque that ordinary Iranians supported the leadership’s decision to attack Israel over the killings of its two allies and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard brigadier general Abbas Nilforoushan. Khamenei said the policy of hegemonic powers and aggressors was to sow discord, but he claimed Muslim nations had been awakened to the fact that Palestinians, Lebanese, Iraqis, Egyptians, Syrians and Yemenis were facing a common enemy with a single command centre.
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