Keep dreaming; Khameini slams US President on claims he has destroyed Iranian nuclear sites

Keep dreaming; Khomeini slams US President on claims he has destroyed Iranian nuclear sites

Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, on Monday rejected US President Donald Trump’s assertion that American strikes in June had destroyed Iran’s nuclear facilities.

In a statement on his official website, Khamenei told Trump to “keep dreaming” regarding the alleged destruction and questioned the US president’s authority “to say what a country should or should not have if it possesses a nuclear industry.”

The claims follow an unprecedented bombing campaign by Israel in mid-June, which saw the US briefly join in targeting key Iranian nuclear sites.

Last week, speaking at the Israeli Knesset, Trump said the US had confirmed “obliterating” the facilities.

“So we dropped 14 bombs on Iran’s key nuclear facilities. Totally as I said originally obliterating them and that’s been confirmed,” he stated.

In a Sunday interview with Fox News, Trump added that Iran “no longer became the bully of the Middle East” after the strikes, which he claimed “destroyed their nuclear capability” and described as “the most beautiful military operation.”

However, the actual impact of the strikes remains unclear.

The Pentagon estimated that the attacks delayed Iran’s nuclear program by one to two years, contradicting an initial classified US intelligence report suggesting only a few months of setback.

On Monday, Khamenei described Trump’s comments as “improper, wrong, and bullying.”

The June conflict with Israel occurred just two days before a planned sixth round of nuclear negotiations between Tehran and Washington, which had started in April.

Talks have since stalled, with Iran stating it would only resume discussions if the US provided guarantees against military action.