Iran's supreme leader was very aggressive in a rare public sermon on Friday, calling the United States an "arrogant power" and thousands of shouting worshipers that God's backing had allowed his country to "slap the face" of the United States.


While delivering his first sermon in Tehran in eight years, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said the mass funerals for Iran’s top general killed in a U.S. airstrike earlier this month reveal that the Iranian people support the Islamic Republic. Khamenei said the strike dealt a “blow to America’s image” as a superpower