Trump Responds To Ayatollah Claiming Victory Over The United States: ‘You Got Beat To Hell’

President Donald Trump on Friday responded to Iranian leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s claim that Iran was victorious over the United States.

“Look, you’re a man of great faith, a man who is highly respected in his country, you have to tell the truth,” Trump said. “You got beat to hell.”

Trump added that the United States would “absolutely” bomb Iran again if it tried to develop its uranium to high levels again.

Trump responds to Ayatollah Khameini claiming victory over the United States:

"You have to tell the truth, you got beat to hell." pic.twitter.com/kJSdYUfNY4

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Trump’s comments come after Khamenei declared victory on Thursday in a series of tweets and an address.

“My congratulations on our dear Iran’s victory over the US regime,” Khamenei posted. “The US regime entered the war directly because it felt that if it didn’t, the Zionist regime would be completely destroyed. It entered the war in an effort to save that regime but achieved nothing.”

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After 12 days of conflict, Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei agreed to a ceasefire with Israel, brokered by Trump. The decision followed a series of major setbacks for the Iranian regime, including successful American strikes on key nuclear sites and military infrastructure. American forces used Tomahawk missiles and 30,000-pound “bunker buster” bombs — delivered by B-2 Spirit bombers — to cripple Iran’s nuclear capabilities.

Trump has spent much of this week praising the precision of American pilots for delivering a direct hit on Iran’s heavily fortified Fordo nuclear site with massive bunker busters.

In another tweet, Khamenei claimed that “the Islamic Republic delivered a heavy slap to the U.S.’s face,” a reference to Iran’s missile strike on the U.S. Al-Udeid Air Base in Qatar. Iran’s Supreme National Security Council falsely claimed that its attack “destroyed the U.S. air base in Al-Udeid, Qatar.”

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The attack involved the launch of 19 missiles, 18 of which were reportedly intercepted. The one missile that landed caused no casualties and resulted in only minimal damage.

Trump said Iran had provided advance warning to his administration, allowing American personnel to shelter or evacuate during the strike, which has been regarded as a coordinated attack for the regime to save face.

“I want to thank Iran for giving us early notice, which made it possible for no lives to be lost, and nobody to be injured,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post on Monday.

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Throughout Israel’s entire 12-day campaign against Iran, dubbed “Operation Rising Lion,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says the IDF removed the threat of a significant number of Iranian ballistic missiles, and helped severely harm Iran’s nuclear program.

The IDF eliminated much of Iran’s senior military command and several leading nuclear scientists, destroyed the enrichment facility in Natanz, the uranium conversion plant in Isfahan, and the heavy water installation in Arak, according to Netanyahu. Other laboratories, factories, ballistic missile production facilities, and regime targets were also struck.