Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei publicly dismissed U.S. President Donald Trump’s assertion that American airstrikes in June 2025 eliminated Iran’s nuclear industry, calling it a delusion during a meeting in Tehran on Monday.
“The US President boasts that they’ve bombed and destroyed Iran’s nuclear industry. Very well, in your dreams” he bragged on U.S
The remarks address U.S. and Israeli strikes on sites like Natanz and Fordow, which damaged surface structures but left underground centrifuges intact, allowing Iran to continue enriching uranium to near-weapons-grade levels.
Khamenei further added that: “Iranian missiles were able to penetrate into the depths of several of the Zionist regime’s important centers to destroy them. These missiles were built by young Iranians. We didn’t buy them from anywhere else.”
Khamenei accused Trump of lying to support Israel and suggested he focus on quelling U.S. domestic protests over Middle East policies.