Iran's Khamenei Warns Against 'Corrupt' US

Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader of Iran's Islamic Revolution, has called out U.S. hypocrisy and arrogance during a meeting with a group of officials in Tehran on Wednesday.

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“They commit crimes in their own country; the U.S. police kill Black women, children and youth and are then acquitted in the court. This is their judiciary system,” he said before adding that the U.S. government then proceeds to “criticize the judiciaries of other countries.”

On issues closer to home, Khamenei reminded his audience that Washington continues to support the so-called Islamic State group (Daesh) and other terrorist groups in the region.

“The U.S., which is one of the most corrupt and oppressive governments in the world, is our main enemy. They supported terrorists and Daesh as much as they could; they are still covertly assisting Daesh and the Takfiris,” he said.

Khamenei advised that utmost vigilance is needed to ward off attempts by the United States to infiltrate the country's decision-making institutions, noting that Saudi Arabia and Israel both receive massive military investments and hardware courtesy of U.S. officials.

In early June, the U.S. Department of Defense confirmed a US$750 million military sale to Saudi Arabia amid the country's war on Yemen. It included U.S.-made missiles, bombs, armoured personnel carriers, warships, munitions and a “blanket order training program” for Saudi security forces receiving the military equipment both inside and outside the kingdom, Reuters reported.

Amid the bombing and devastation, which has killed 12,000 civilians and forced more than a million to flee their homes, Yemen also faces a severe cholera outbreak that has claimed the lives of at least 2,119 people, according to Alexandre Faite, head of the International Committee of the Red Cross. Another eight million are on the verge of starvation.

Meanwhile, the international community has galvanized in protest after U.S. President Donald Trump, going one step further than his predecessor and other former presidents, announced plans to move the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, officially making occupied-Jerusalem the capital of Israel.