On Tuesday, Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, had a rather counterintuitive response: gratitude.
Khamenei said that he considers the opening weeks of Trump’s administration to be a revelation of America’s true character, and was grateful for how it made plain impulses that have typically laid beneath the surface of American policy. [...]
Khamenei’s rhetoric is a prime example of how the US’s political adversaries in the Middle East can easily use Trump’s Islamophobic rhetoric and policies as a tool for recruiting and mobilizing against him. And indeed, Khamenei did just that on Tuesday:
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