On the occasion of the National Basij (Iranian Popular Mobilization Forces) Week, the leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Seyyed Ali Khamenei stated that Operation Al-Aqsa Flood has crushed US plans to take over the region. 

"The historic event of al-Aqsa Flood is against the Zionist regime but it is aimed at de-Americanization. This incident literally managed to disrupt the table of American policies in the region, and God willing, if this Flood continues, it will wipe out the whole table,” he said. 

"Israel's" aggression on Gaza, he said, did not only discredited the occupation but the United States, several European countries, and Western culture and civilization in general as well.

“The barbaric and cruel actions that the Zionist regime committed in its crimes against the people of Gaza, not only destroyed the reputation of the regime, but also that of the United States. It took away the reputation of several renowned European countries, and also ruined the reputation of Western culture and civilization,” he indicated. 

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Seyyed Khamenei further questioned the "self-defense" rhetoric being used by the West to justify the genocide in Gaza.

“The culture and civilization of the West is the very civilization that when 5,000 children are killed with phosphorus bombs, the regime of a certain Western country says Israel is defending itself. Is this self-defense? This is Western culture, which has been discredited”.

He described the Israeli atrocities committed since October 7 as a “small part of the 75-year-long crimes of the Zionist regime in Palestine.”

Seyyed Khamenei stated that the US scheme for a so-called "New Middle East" had failed, adding that a two-state solution in Palestine was part of the same hostile policy that had failed terribly.

"They intended to destroy Hezbollah but Hezbollah became 10 times stronger; they wanted to devour Iraq but they failed; they wanted to take over Syria and inflicted their proxies under the name of Daesh and al-Nusra on the Syrian government, and for seven, eight, ten years, they continuously supported and provided them with money and equipment, but again they failed,” the Iranian leader recalled.