During a Jan. 20 meeting with election officials, Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei discussed the attack on the Saudi Arabian Embassy in Iran, upcoming parliamentary elections and implementation of the nuclear deal between Iran and the six world powers.
Khamenei called the Jan. 2 attack on the Saudi Embassy in Tehran and consulate in Mashhad “very bad and wrong.” He added that this attack, as well as one on the British Embassy in 2011, were both “to the detriment of the country and Islam and I disliked both.” He also said that young religious groups, often called “Hezbollahis” in Iran, should not be blamed for the attack.
