Breitbart.com reports: “Iran’s ‘supreme leader,’ dictator Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, delivered a speech on Sunday demanding complete submission to his regime from the Iranian people, describing national ‘unity’ as an ‘iron shield’ to defend against America and Israel…

In his remarks on Sunday, Khamenei insisted that normalizing ties to the United States was impossible because Washington sought to subjugate Iran.

‘The US wants Iran to be obedient to it,’ he claimed, according to a translation by the regime-friendly al-Manar news network in Lebanon. ‘The Iranian nation is deeply offended by such a great insult and will stand with all its strength against those who harbor such a false expectation of the Iranian people.’

Khamenei insulted politicians in Iran who encouraged negotiations with the United States as ‘shallow-minded’ and demanded an end to any discussions about alternative ways of addressing the country’s current weakened diplomatic state.

‘Ayatollah Khamenei urged all people, officials, and intellectuals to wholeheartedly preserve and strengthen the iron shield of the current great national unity,’ al-Manar reported. ’He also said that all people and groups should support the hardworking President Masoud Pezeshkian.’…”