Leader: US provoking certain states to confront Iran
Tehran (KNA) - Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says the US is instigating Saudi Arabia and certain other regional countries to start a confrontation with Iran.
"The Americans are trying to provoke the Saudis and certain countries in the region and pit them against the Islamic Republic but if they have wisdom, they should not be deceived by the United States," the Leader said on Monday. His remarks came a day after US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo visited Saudi Arabia where he called for unity among the Persian Gulf countries, deeply divided over Qatar, in order to face Iran.
"The Americans do not want to suffer the cost of confronting the Islamic Republic and the powerful nation of Iran themselves; they want to make some states in the region shoulder it," the Leader told a group of workers and entrepreneurs in Tehran ahead of Labor Day.
The Leader said US military presence in West Asia is the cause of insecurity, war and violence. "For this reason, the Americans' feet must be cut off from this region and they must leave West Asia," he added.
Former US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson drew a harsh response from Iranian officials when he said at a news conference with Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir last October that Iranian forces in Iraq "need to go home".
Iran was central to Iraq's defeat of Daesh terrorists in the Arab country through the advisory assistance which it provided at the request of the Iraqi government.
Source: PressTV