Ayatollah Moytaba Khamenei, commander of the armed forces: « Hard power and soft power in the US. The USA has suffered an irreversible decline » His Eminence, Ayatollah Seyed Muytaba Hosseini Khamenei, the leader of the Islamic Revolution, issued a statement on the occasion of Aban 13, the students' day and the national day to fight global arrogance, emphasizing that the position of the Iranian nation against the criminal American power this year is clearer and sharper than ever. He also described the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz as a scenario in which the myth of American invincibility was disproved, and emphasized: those who maintain a minimum of hope in a change of behavior or party replacement in the hegemonic system, or imagine that they can make the United States abandon its hostility towards the Iranian people by providing notable advantages. Read the full text.

Ayatollah Moytaba Khamenei, commander of the armed forces: « Hard power and soft power in the US. The USA has suffered an irreversible decline » His Eminence, Ayatollah Seyed Muytaba Hosseini Khamenei, the leader of the Islamic Revolution, issued a statement on the occasion of Aban 13, the students' day and the national day to fight global arrogance, emphasizing that the position of the Iranian nation against the criminal American power this year is clearer and sharper than ever. He also described the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz as a scenario in which the myth of American invincibility was disproved, and emphasized: those who maintain a minimum of hope in a change of behavior or party replacement in the hegemonic system, or imagine that they can make the United States abandon its hostility towards the Iranian people by providing notable advantages. Read the full text.