Khamenei reiterated that Iran will defend its nuclear and missile technologies, accusing the US of causing instability in the Persian Gulf and vowing to expel foreign forces.
Iranians stand on a pavement along a street next to a billboard depicting Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, in Tehran on April 24, 2026.(photo credit: AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES)
MAY 1, 2026 10:40Updated: MAY 1, 2026 11:04
The “noble” Iranian population will safeguard the regime’s nuclear and missile technologies as “national assets,” a Thursday speech attributed to Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei read.
The speech was read on Iranian state TV by a broadcaster and posted on Khamenei’s official X/Twitter account.
Iranians will “safeguard these assets just as they do their maritime, land, and airspace borders,” the speech continued.
“A new chapter for the Persian Gulf and Strait of Hormuz is unfolding,” it read.
“Today, it has been proven to not only the global public opinion but even to the rulers of countries that the US’s presence and establishment in the Persian Gulf is the main source of instability in the region,” it stated.
“The US’s flimsy bases lack the resilience and capability even to ensure their own security, let alone provide any hope for US’s dependents and the US-worshippers in the region,” the speech continued.
“The brilliant future of the Persian Gulf region will be a future without the US where the progress, comfort, and prosperity of its nations are served,” it added.
‘American foreigners belong at the bottom of Strait of Hormuz,’ speech attributed to Khamenei says
“We share a ‘common destiny’ with our neighbors surrounding the waters of the Persian Gulf and the Sea of Oman. These foreigners from thousands of kilometers away, who are greedily carrying out transgressions in the Persian Gulf and Sea of Oman, have no place here except at the bottom of its waters,” the speech stated.
“Iran will put an end to the hostile enemy’s exploitation of the Strait of Hormuz,” it stated, adding that Iran’s management of the strait would “ensure the security of the Persian Gulf.”
The gulf has “provoked the greed of many devils over the centuries,” including “repeated aggressions carried out by European and American foreigners,” it said.
Most recently, this includes the “saber-rattling of the Great Satan, the US,” it concluded.
A similar statement was read in early April.
Khamenei is believed to be seriously wounded following Israeli and US airstrikes on Tehran.
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