Tehran, Iran – Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has publicly reprimanded the Iranian diplomat for his comments on power struggles in a controversial audio tape leaked last week.
Khamenei said in a televised speech on Sunday that he was “surprised and sorry” to hear Mohammad Javad Zarif’s late comments General Qassem Soleimanipower and influence, without directly appointing the diplomat.
“Some of these comments are a repetition of our enemy’s enemy speeches, a repetition of American words,” he said, noting that the anti-Iranian media released the tape.
He spent more than three hours on a seven-hour secretive government oral history project with the Saudi-funded Iran International channel based in London.