‘Enmities towards Iran will not end with Trump’

TEHRAN: Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Wednesday that US "enmities" towards Iran will not cease with the looming departure from office of President Donald Trump.

He reiterated his position that Iran should bolster itself to "nullify" sanctions imposed by the Trump administration, but should "not delay" in the event they can be lifted. "You witnessed what Trump’s America and Obama’s America did to you," he was quoted as saying on his official website.

"Enmities are not limited to Trump’s America and will not end just because he has left office," Khamenei added, addressing the family of top Iranian general Qasem Soleimani, who was killed in a January US air strike in neighbouring Iraq.