Iran: Ayatolla Khamenei leads Eid prayers in Tehran

Thousands of people gathered in Tehran to attend the the Eid al-Fitr prayers officiated by the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Khamenei, Saturday. The ritual took place at Tehran’s Grand Prayer Grounds (Mosalla), where thousands of people, led by the Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and other senior Iranian officials came to listen to Khamenei's prayer speech. In his speech, Khamenei stressed that Iran is not seeking to build nuclear weapons. Between anti-USA and anti-ISrael chants from the crows, he added that Iran's policy towards "the arrogant American government" will not change and that. He stressed, "the Islamic Republic of Iran will not abandon its support of its friends in the region , and "the oppressed people in Palestine and Yemen, and the people and the two governments in crisis in Syria and Iraq, and the oppressed people of Bahrain."