Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has lashed out at U.S. President Donald Trump in a televised address, calling him a "disgrace," accusing him of dishonesty, and declaring "he lied" about claims to use American power for peace. The remarks, aired on Iranian state television, followed Trump's recent multi-country tour of the Middle East, during which the U.S. president called Iran's leadership corrupt and pledged to block its nuclear ambitions.

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei slammed US President Donald Trump's comments, saying some of Trump's comments during his recent Middle East tour were not even worth responding to, Al Jazeera reported. Trump praised Arab leaders neighbouring Iran while blasting Tehran's leadership, sparking a sharp rebuke from Iran. In a speech to a group of teachers gathered for a state ceremony in Tehran on Saturday, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei described Trump's remarks as "low-level" and a "disgrace" for both Trump and the American nation. "The level of those remarks is so low that they are a disgrace for the one who uttered them and a disgrace to the American nation," he said, to chants of "Death to America" and others from the crowd.

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei slammed President Donald Trump in front of a crowd chanting “death to America” in recent comments as the United States tries to negotiate a new nuclear deal with Iran. Khamenei accused Trump of lying about attempts to bring peace to the Middle East and said that the United States should leave the region. The supreme leader also referred to Israel as a “cancerous tumor” that needs to be “uprooted,” according to a translation of his comments by the Washington D.C.-based Middle East Media Research Institute.