Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei says Iran dealt enemies 'dizzying blow'
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Ayatollah Khamenei claims Iran has struck a significant blow against enemies amid escalating tensions and ongoing conflict with Israel.
Iran's Supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei said on Friday (March 20, 2026) the country had dealt its enemies a "dizzying blow" in the war with the United States and Israel, as fresh blasts hit Tehran on the first day of the Persian New Year festival.
He released a message marking the start of Persian New Year which he named the year of a “resistance economy under national unity and national security.”
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Mr. Khamenei has not appeared in public since being named to succeed his father Ali Khamenei, who was killed in Israeli airstrikes at the start of the war that has engulfed the region, and has only issued written statements.
Iranians have "dealt him (the enemy) a dizzying blow so that he now starts uttering contradictory words and nonsense," Mr. Khamenei said in a written message for Nowruz, the Persian New Year.
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