US Mosque Honors Ayatollah Khamenei, Trashes America Days After Iran War Began

A mosque in Dearborn, Michigan, held a service honoring Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei during which the preachers delivered an anti-American rant.

President Donald Trump confirmed Khamenei’s death in a post on Truth Social Saturday afternoon, hours after he announced Operation Epic Fury. During the address, excerpts of which were posted online by the Middle East Media Research Institute on Tuesday, the preacher described Khamenei as a “martyr.” (RELATED: Trump Says US Decapitated Iranian Leadership As They Ate Breakfast)

“We’re gathered here today to commemorate the martyrdom of the great leader of our time, Sayyid Ali Hussein Khamenei,” the first preacher, Hassan Salamey, said.

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“We might think this was an attack led by Zionist Jews, but the commander of their mission is the very one who was trying to prove that Adam was not worth prostrating to, Iblis [Satan] is the one behind the scenes leading their camp in the shadows lurking, lurking in their symbology, their ideologies, their psychology, their economy, claiming they follow the laws of Moses in Deuteronomy and Iblis [Satan] is the hidden commander of today’s society,” Salamey added after a cutaway.

Iran responded to Operation Epic Fury by firing hundreds of ballistic missiles and drones indiscriminately at targets in Israel, Qatar, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. Salamey claimed that the “devil-worshipping Freemasons” and “Zionist-minded Christopher Columbus” engaged in genocide and stole the land.

“Regardless of the stooge we put at the desk of the Oval Office, Republican or Democrats, but even if 1000 elections come to pass, it is clear that this country was built for and built by the Epstein class and that just like Palestine, we live on stolen land,” Salamey claimed.

“When the devil worshiping Freemasons reached these shores and the Zionist-minded Christopher Columbus who came to explore and they genocided the natives and put the one eye of the devil on their currency to put their plans in full sight while the Statue of Liberty is actually Lucifer, the demonic bearer holding a torch of light,” Salamey continued.

Another preacher, Usama Abdulghani, particularly praised the mothers who brought young children to the service.

“We ask Allah to accept this sacrifice, and I offer my condolences to each and every one of you, and I also offer my congratulations on this ultimate honor that he received after 86 years of jihad in the way of Allah, subhanahu wata Allah,” the preacher continued. “I appreciate each and every one of you for coming out here. It was very important that we have this gathering today and that we remember our shohad and that we not be intimidated by the Epstein class and even more than that I appreciate the brothers and I appreciate our sisters, especially those sisters who brought small children so that our children will grow up with this culture where we remember our martyrs and we’re not ashamed of them.”

Following Khamenei’s death, The New York Times drew fire for its headline on his obituary, which read, “Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Autocratic Cleric Who Made Iran a Regional Power, Is Dead at 86.”

Code Pink, which claims to be a “feminist grassroots organization,” joined with a northern Virginia mosque that scheduled a meal to honor the radical Islamic cleric to protest the strikes against the Islamic Republic of Iran.

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