Hyderabad, March 20 -- Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei struck a defiant tone on Friday, March 20, saying US and Israeli strikes had failed to weaken the country as the conflict entered its fourth week.

Khamenei says US-Israel miscalculated impact of strikes

In a written message marking Nowruz, Khamenei described the attacks as a "gross miscalculation", rejecting the notion that targeting senior leaders would destabilise the government.

He said the war was launched under the "delusion" that killing key figures would instil fear and enable external domination of Iran. Instead, he said, the strikes had led to a "strange unity" among Iranians across religious, cultural and political lines, while exposing divisions among th...