President Trump on Friday claimed he saved Iran�s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei from an �ugly� and �ignominious� death after the U.S. bombed three Iranian nuclear sites last Saturday.

�Why would the so-called �Supreme Leader,� Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, of the war torn Country of Iran, say so blatantly and foolishly that he won the War with Israel, when he knows his statement is a lie, it is not so,� Trump wrote in a lengthy post on Truth Social.

�His Country was decimated, his three evil Nuclear Sites were OBLITERATED, and I knew EXACTLY where he was sheltered, and would not let Israel, or the U.S. Armed Forces, by far the Greatest and Most Powerful in the World, terminate his life,� he continued. �I SAVED HIM FROM A VERY UGLY AND IGNOMINIOUS DEATH, and he does not have to say, �THANK YOU, PRESIDENT TRUMP!��

Trump said he �demanded� Israel call back planes that were headed to Tehran, �looking for a big day, perhaps the final knockout,� and that the move averted �tremendous damage.�

�During the last few days, I was working on the possible removal of sanctions, and other things, which would have given a much better chance to Iran at a full, fast, and complete recovery � The sanctions are BITING!� the president wrote Friday. �But no, instead I get hit with a statement of anger, hatred, and disgust, and immediately dropped all work on sanction relief, and more.�

He also warned things �will only get worse� for Iran if they don�t �get back into the World Order flow� and urged Tehran leaders to �realize that you often get more with HONEY than you do with VINEGAR. PEACE!!!�

The president�s comments come after Khamenei, in his first remarks since the U.S. strikes on Iran�s Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan nuclear facilities, declared victory in the conflict and argued the U.S. �achieved nothing� through the strikes.

�My congratulations on our dear Iran�s victory over the US regime,� Khamenei wrote early Thursday on social platform X. �The US regime entered the war directly because it felt that if it didn�t, the Zionist regime would be completely destroyed.�

�It entered the war in an effort to save that regime but achieved nothing,� he added.

The ayatollah noted in a second post that Iran �delivered a heavy slap to the US�s face� with its counterattack on the U.S. air base in Qatar.

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