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rpannier

(24,329 posts)
Fri Jan 17, 2020, 06:41 AM Jan 2020

Iran's supreme leader calls Trump 'clown' in rare Friday sermon

Iran’s supreme leader has described Donald Trump as a “clown” who only pretends to support the Iranian people but will push a poisonous dagger into their backs, as he struck a defiant tone in his first Friday sermon in Tehran in eight years.

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said the mass funerals for Iran’s top general, who was killed in a US strike earlier this month, show that the Iranian people support the Islamic Republic despite its recent trials. The “cowardly” killing of Qassem Suleimani had taken out the most effective commander in the battle against the Islamic State group, he said.

In response, Iran launched a barrage of ballistic missiles targeting US troops in Iraq, without causing serious injuries. Khamenei said the strike had dealt a blow to America’s image as a superpower. In part of the sermon delivered in Arabic, he said the real punishment would be in forcing the US to withdraw from the Middle East.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/17/iran-supreme-leader-trump-clown-friday-sermon-ayatollah-ali-khamenei

Clown? Wonder how soon the Ayatollah becomes il douche's new best friend. Personal insults worked for the dork leader in North Korea

Fitting name 'Dotard the Clown' (evil clown)

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Iran's supreme leader calls Trump 'clown' in rare Friday sermon (Original Post) rpannier Jan 2020 OP
he's not wrong janterry Jan 2020 #1
Takes one to know one, Ayadipshit... Dennis Donovan Jan 2020 #2
Drop them on an island and leave them there rpannier Jan 2020 #3
Gilli-goon's Island... Dennis Donovan Jan 2020 #4
elect a clown... handmade34 Jan 2020 #5
I remember that the Righties' biggest complaint about the Big Dog Vogon_Glory Jan 2020 #6
Kick dalton99a Jan 2020 #7

Dennis Donovan

(18,770 posts)
2. Takes one to know one, Ayadipshit...
Fri Jan 17, 2020, 06:59 AM
Jan 2020

Big words from an asshole that just murdered 176 innocent civilians.

handmade34

(22,756 posts)
5. elect a clown...
Fri Jan 17, 2020, 09:56 AM
Jan 2020

expect a circus... no matter what you think of Iran's Supreme Leader, he is 100% correct with that sentiment

Vogon_Glory

(9,117 posts)
6. I remember that the Righties' biggest complaint about the Big Dog
Fri Jan 17, 2020, 10:51 AM
Jan 2020

Was that he supposedly made the US an object of ridicule. Twenty-plus years later they vote for a guy mocked in public like Syria’s Assad, Korea’s Kim, Iran’s Supreme Ayatollah, and in private by Vladimir Putin and the rest of the developed world.

Denizens of Dumb(cluck)istan, we salute you!

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