Friday Prayer Sermon Following the Soleimani Strike
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
Khamenei's first Friday Prayer sermon in eight years, delivered in Tehran on 17 January 2020 in the wake of the US drone strike that killed Qasem Soleimani and Iran's retaliatory missile attack on US bases in Iraq. The sermon called the missile strike a "slap in the face" to the United States, framed the wider regional confrontation as a "day of God," and dismissed Western leaders as "American clowns." Khamenei.ir's English site publishes selected statements rather than a verbatim sermon transcript.
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- Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
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- 2020
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- political
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