Hearing Ayatollah Ali Khamenei give his proud, bombastic, and threatening speech on Wednesday, many global listeners might have had a double take about how the "supreme leader" could try to sound like he is an equal to Israel militarily, and possibly even to the US, and as if nothing has changed in the world since Jerusalem started tearing apart his military power base on Friday of last week.
And maybe before Israel destroyed large portions of his nuclear program, his ballistic missile program, drone program, killed nine of his top 13 military officials, dozens more senior and medium level officials, his entire anti aircraft defense network of over 70 platforms, such a threatening speech would have made sense and truly scared much of the world, including Jerusalem and Washington DC.
But after Tehran's military power had taken the beating the IDF had given it, his speech came off as bizarre.
Most viewers' first instinct would likely to be to assume that he is playing a complex game in which he knows how badly Iran is losing this war, but is trying to present a brave face in public, both to maintain morale for fighting as long as he deems necessary, to hope to keep the US out of the war as long as possible, and to try to achieve the best possible post-war terms.
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