Iran’s Mojtaba Khamenei vows to fight in first statement as supreme leader
The newly appointed supreme leader delivers a combative statement, pledging Iran will keep fighting.
Mojtaba Khamenei has issued his first statement since taking over as Iran’s supreme leader after his father, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and several family members were assassinated in the United States and Israeli strikes at the outset of the war that has now embroiled much of the Middle East.
In the statement attributed to him, which was read on Press TV on Thursday by a news anchor, Khamenei called for national unity and said the vital global artery of the Strait of Hormuz would continue to be closed to pressure Iran’s enemies.
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