Iran Supreme Leader Says American Troops Will Be Expelled From Iraq And Syria

TEHRAN, May 17 (MNA) – Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei said that American occupiers cannot continue presence in Iraq and Syria.

Daily Mail: Iran's Supreme Leader Khamenei says US troops will be expelled from Iraq and Syria because 'even allies abhor the American leaders'

* Americans will be expelled from Iraq and Syria, Iran's leader said on Sunday
* Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei renewed Iran's demand for U.S. troops to be withdrawn from the Middle East
* Iran almost got into a full-blown conflict with the United States when a U.S. drone strike killed top Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani in January
* Khamenei said Americans' actions in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria had led to them being hated during a speech to students
* President Donald Trump said he had instructed the U.S. Navy to fire on any Iranian ships that harass them at sea
* In response, the head of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards said Iran would destroy U.S. warships if its security was threatened in the Gulf

Iran's supreme leader said Sunday that the United States will be expelled from Iraq and Syria and alleged that even Washington's allies 'abhor' it now.

The US 'will not be staying either in Iraq or Syria and must withdraw and will certainly be expelled', said Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, according to his official website.

Both the US and Iran have weighed into Syria's conflict -- Tehran backing the Damascus regime, while Washington supported the Kurds against the Islamic State group -- and both have been major geopolitical players in Iraq since the toppling of dictator Saddam Hussein in 2003.

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