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Forty years since revolution, Iran taunts 'declining' America
« on: February 01, 2019, 01:11:20 pm »
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Forty years since revolution, Iran taunts 'declining' America

DUBAI (Reuters) - Forty years after its revolution, Iran has no fear of a "declining" America, a senior cleric said on Friday at the start of official commemorations of the uprising that made the country a permanent enemy of the United States.

Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati, a famously hardline cleric who is the secretary of the Guardian Council, a body with huge influence over the way Iran is run, used his speech to mock the leadership of President Donald Trump.

"Even many of America's allies don't listen to it anymore and they are not afraid of it," Jannati said at the mausoleum of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, who returned from exile in France to lead the revolution exactly 40 years ago.

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