Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Wednesday dubbed some U.S. officials as “first-class idiots” as he ridiculed them for predicting the collapse of the Islamic Republic by the end of 2018. “Some U.S. officials pretend that they are mad. Of course I don’t agree with that, but they are first-class idiots,” he said in speech, quoted on his official Twitter feed.
“A while ago, a U.S. politician had said, among a gathering of terrorists and thugs, that he hopes to celebrate this Christmas in Tehran,” he said.
It was not clear to which official he was referring, but members of President Donald Trump’s administration, including National Security Adviser John Bolton, have called for regime change. “Before 2019, we will celebrate in Tehran,” Mr. Bolton told a meeting of the exiled People’s Mujahedeen of Iran group in 2017.
