TEHRAN – Tehran Friday prayer leader Mohammad-Hassan Aboutorabi Fard says the Iranians have become fully aware of the “deep animosity” of the United States toward “Islam, the Islamic Ummah and the Iranian nation”.

“Today America is repeatedly slapped by the Islamic Resistance and the Islamic Ummah,” Aboutorabi Fard told worshippers, Mehr reported.

He also said the Islamic Republic has stood up to the U.S. greed with all of its power and “will definitely reach its Islamic ideals set out by the late Imam [Khomeini] and the Leader.”

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