{"id":28156,"date":"2026-04-30T23:32:43","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T17:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.kathmandupati.com\/?p=28156"},"modified":"2026-04-30T23:32:46","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T17:47:46","slug":"irans-supreme-leader-says-us-suffered-disgraceful-defeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.kathmandupati.com\/?p=28156","title":{"rendered":"Iran&#8217;s supreme leader says US suffered &#8216;disgraceful defeat&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>TEHRAN &#8211; Iran&#8217;s supreme leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei said in a written message on Thursday that the United States had been defeated in its war with the Islamic republic, as the Iranian leadership defied President Donald Trump&#8217;s warnings of a prolonged blockade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Today, two months after the largest military deployment and aggression by the world&#8217;s bullies in the region, and the United States&#8217; disgraceful defeat in its plans, a new chapter is unfolding for the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz,&#8221; said Khamenei in the message read on state television.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The message by Khamenei, who has yet to appear in public since his appointment on March 9 as Iran&#8217;s new supreme leader, came on the annual national celebration of &#8220;Persian Gulf&#8221; day in Iran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mojtaba Khamenei became supreme leader after the US and Israel launched a massive campaign of strikes on Iran on February 28, killing his father and predecessor Ali Khamenei.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last week, the New York Times citing several unnamed Iranian officials said the younger Khamenei was &#8220;gravely wounded&#8221; in the strikes but has remained &#8220;mentally sharp.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In his Thursday message, he said US bases in the region &#8220;lack even the capacity to ensure their own security, let alone provide any hope of securing their allies.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He hailed what he called Iran&#8217;s &#8220;new legal framework and management&#8221; of the strategic Strait of Hormuz, a key energy chokepoint, as a means to bring &#8220;comfort and progress&#8221; for countries in the region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Bright future <\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The strait has become a major flashpoint since the outbreak of the Middle East war, with Iran allowing only a trickle of ships to pass through the waterway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last week, a senior lawmaker said Tehran has received the first revenue from tolls it imposed on the strait.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Khamenei predicted a bright future for the Gulf without the United States and condemned what he described as &#8220;outsiders&#8221;, saying those who interfere from thousands of kilometres away &#8220;have no place there except at the bottom of its waters&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He also lauded the people of Iran who he said &#8220;consider all national capacities &#8212; identity, spiritual, human, scientific, industrial, and advanced technologies from nano and bio to nuclear and missile &#8212; as their national capital&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier Thursday, Iran&#8217;s President Masoud Pezeshkian had said a US naval blockade imposed in retaliation against Iran&#8217;s action in Hormuz was &#8220;doomed to fail&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pezeshkian added that such measures would &#8220;not only fail to enhance regional security, but are in fact a source of tension and a disruption to lasting stability in the Persian Gulf&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other figures have also struck a tone of defiance, with navy commander Shahram Irani signalling that Iran will deploy &#8220;in the very near future&#8221; naval weaponry which it has recently developed. &#8211; AFP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEHRAN &#8211; Iran&#8217;s supreme leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei said in a written message on Thursday that the United States had been defeated in its war with the Islamic republic, as the Iranian leadership defied President Donald Trump&#8217;s warnings of a prolonged blockade. &#8220;Today, two months after the largest military deployment and aggression by the world&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28157,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.1 - 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