Iran’s supreme leader tells US its only place in Persian Gulf is at ‘bottom of its waters’

Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei stated on Thursday during Iran's Persian Gulf Day commemoration that the United States had been defeated in its conflict with the Islamic Republic and declared the US's only place in the Persian Gulf was "at the bottom of its waters," according to his written message broadcast on state television. The statement reflects escalating rhetorical hostility amid ongoing tensions between Iran and the US over regional influence and Iran's nuclear programme.

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