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Ayatollah Khamenei made the remarks in a Tuesday meeting with Iranian students in the capital, Tehran.

According to the Iranian calendar, Wednesday, Aban 13, marks the day when Iranian students took over the US embassy in Tehran, dubbed the “den of espionage,” back in 1979. It has been named the National Day of Fighting Global Arrogance.

In his Tuesday remarks, Ayatollah Khamenei referred to the 1953 coup d’état against former Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddeq, and noted the then-premier made a mistake by putting his trust in the US after the Iranian oil industry was nationalized.

The Leader said the US has in recent years been involved in having certain individuals conceal its hostile intentions against Iran; the objective is to hide the real intention of the enemy from Iran so foes can harm the country, Ayatollah Khamenei said.

Some people do that with evil motives, some others out of folly, the Leader said.

Ayatollah Khamenei urged Iranian students to learn lessons from the US embassy takeover, noting that those students who seized the embassy found out that it was a “den of espionage.”

“This shows that the Americans, at the height of the [revolutionary] movement and the victory of the Revolution, were conspiring against the Islamic Republic; that is what America is,” the Leader said.

The Leader pointed to the nuclear negotiations between Iran and the P5+1 group of countries and said it was the strength of the Iranian nation that forced the countries that claim a world power status to join each other and rise up to the Iranian nation and employ the hostile measures that they did in the hope that the Iranian nation would no more be able to stand on its feet. “That is the power of the Iranian nation,” Ayatollah Khamenei said.

Taking insignificant internal issues as pretexts, some people forget who the enemy is, the Leader said, adding that, “Of course, the society is free, and criticism leads to progress; however, one shouldn’t mistake the main enemy with secondary enemies and with friends with whom one has disagreements.”

“The main enemy is he who seeks to destroy the achievement of the Iranian nation,” the Leader of the Islamic Revolution said.

“In the negotiations, claiming that they opposed war, Americans even shed tears in front of cameras. This is the very person who doesn’t bother when Zionists cut to pieces hundreds of children in Gaza. Is crying in front of the camera a sincere act?” the Leader said.

‘Death to US policies’

“The slogan ‘death to America’ is backed by reason and wisdom; and it goes without saying that the slogan does not mean death to the American nation; this slogan means death to the US’s policies, death to arrogance,” the Leader noted.

“Our universities were one day a bridge to the West; today, they are ladders to reach high goals; certain people want to destroy this ladder and replace it with that bridge to the West,” Ayatollah Khamenei said, urging alertness by the youth in the face of such attempts.

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Russian bomber aircraft have targeted the positions of Daesh terrorists near the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra in the central province of Homs.

“Su-25 jets hit a fortified ISIS position in the Tadmur area of Homs province,” Russian Defense Ministry said in a Monday statement, using another acronym for Daesh and the Arabic name for Palmyra.

“As a result of a direct strike, a fortification, an underground bunker and anti-aircraft artillery were destroyed,” the statement added.

The ministry has recently reported a number of attacks on Daesh positions near Palmyra, always insisting that the airstrikes are carried out without causing damage to the historic site.

Moscow began an aerial military campaign against Daesh and other terrorist groups in Syria in late September upon a request from the Damascus government.

The Daesh Takfiri group, which controls parts of Syria and neighboring Iraq, overran Palmyra in May. Since then, the terrorists have blown up a number of temples and mined other monuments.

The whole city of Palmyra has been listed as a world heritage site by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) since 1980.

Daesh extremists have ransacked and demolished several ancient sites, shrines, and manuscripts as well as mosques in Syria and Iraq.

Gruesome violence and the destruction of priceless artifacts have become hallmarks of the group.

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Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Major General Mohammad Ali Jafari affirmed that Iran will keep providing Yemen’s Ansarullah movement with whatever advisory assistance it may need in the face of Saudi-led invasion.

In an address to the University of Tehran’s students on Monday, the top general said Iran has offered the necessary help for Yemen so far, and will continue to “do whatever it can in the advisory dimension”, because “the Ansarullah (movement) has gained a firm position in Yemen.”

His comments came against the backdrop of more than seven months of airstrikes against Yemen by a Saudi-led military coalition. Saudis and their Arab allies have been targeting the Houthi Ansarullah movement in an attempt to restore power to the fugitive former Yemeni President Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi, a close ally of Riyadh.

Elsewhere in his comments, Major General Jafari reiterated Iran’s commitment to offering advisory assistance to the Syrian government and nation.

The general said Iran will keep backing Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, who has stood against Israel.

Lauding the Syrian president’s significant role in the axis of anti-Israeli resistance, the IRGC commander said Iran will agree to Assad’s stepping down “only if the Syrian people chose it in elections.”

In comments earlier on Sunday, Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei also described the only way out of crisis in Syria as elections.

“The solution to the Syria issue is elections and to that effect, war and unrest should first end with a halt to military and financial aid to the dissidents, so that the Syrian people would elect anyone they want in a safe and calm atmosphere,” Ayatollah Khamenei said.

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The terrorist group of ISIS has executed 12 youngsters for trying to escape a training camp in the northwestern Iraqi city of Mosul, local activists reported on Monday.

Media activist Yousef al-Jubouri said that some 12 minors, who were being trained militarily by ISIS east of Mosul, were brutally executed days after their arrest by the group.

“The victims have tried to escape the camp in a bid to avoid carrying out suicide operations on behalf of ISIS,” he said.

The extremist group obliges minors to join its camps in Iraq and Syria, where recruits are being trained on conducting suicide attacks, slaughter and torture.

The source stressed that the boys, who were executed at the hands of ISIS militants in a woodland area near Mosul, consist a small group of the nearly 4000 minors trained by the extremists.

“These youngsters are subjected to the worst kinds of torture during the brutal training,” al-Jubouri said , pointing out “they have been recruited from all regions of Iraq and Syria.”

“In Syria, dozens of minors have been recruited by ISIS in Deir ez-Zor, Raqqa and Aleppo, where their parents receive funds from the group,” al-Jubouri said, adding that “all the juveniles who were executed in Mosul are from the Arab component.”

In Iraq, the terrorist group took advantage of the tribes of al-Tarabsha and al-Bu Nimr to collect children to be trained in the al-Taqa headquarters of al-Furat district, according to the source. “Those who do not show unique capabilities during the training are being utilized by ISIS as human shields during battles.”

The youngsters are reportedly subject to training sessions of one month and a half, and are then dispersed among the suicide squads and bomb-making workshops.

“The ISIS hardline group is also training hundreds of children aged 9-12 in the al-Furat area of the sub-district of Heet west of Ramadi,” a tribal source in Mosul told ARA News on the condition of anonymity.

The terrorist group of ISIS has allocated several camps in the areas under its control in Mosul and Ramadi in northern Iraq and in the city of Raqqa in northeastern Syria, to train minors dubbed as “Ashbal al-Khilafa” (Cubs of the Caliphate) to carry out “jihadist operations”, according to pro-ISIS media outlets.

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