By World Israel News Staff

Iran’s supreme leader on Monday mocked President Donald Trump’s claims that US airstrikes in June destroyed the Islamic Republic’s atomic program and rejected American demands that Tehran abandon its uranium enrichment efforts.

In a post to his official X account, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei took aim at Trump over his repeated claims that US airstrikes against the Fordo, Isfahan, and Natanz facilities destroyed Iran’s nuclear program.

“Their nuclear program is gone,” Trump told reporters on Air Force One last June 25.

“We destroyed Iran’s nuclear program,” he said two days earlier at a rally in Cincinnati. “Totally destroyed. There is no nuclear program anymore — we wiped it out.”

Last week, Trump repeated his claim, telling the Knesset that the American airstrikes this June “obliterated” the Iranian nuclear facilities, thus stopping “the world’s number one state sponsor of terrorism from making nuclear weapons.”

“The American president boasts: ‘We bombed Iran’s nuclear program and destroyed it.’” Khamenei wrote. “Okay then, keep dreaming.”

The line uploaded to Khamenei’s X account was drawn from his address on Monday to the winners of sports and science competitions.

Khamenei dismissed the claim as “nonsense spoken to console disheartened Israeli officials after an unexpected defeat in the 12-day war.”

“The Zionists never imagined that an Iranian-made missile, created by the hands of young Iranians, could reduce parts of their strategic centers to ashes, but it happened.

“These words were spoken to people who have lost confidence,” Khamenei continued. “Their 12-day war humiliated them, and the American president went there only to give them spirit.”

Khamenei went on to reject American pressure on Iran to abandon its uranium enrichment efforts and halt its production of ballistic missiles.

“The United States is in no position to determine what countries should or should not possess nuclear capabilities,” Khamenei said.

“These missiles are ours, built by our youth, not borrowed or bought from anyone. They remain ready and will be used again if necessary.”

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