New Delhi, March 14 -- Iran's Supreme Leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, has called upon all regional countries to shut down US bases as soon as possible, saying Washington's claims of ensuring security and peace to these countries have been nothing but lies.
''I advise the leaders of regional countries to shut down those [US] bases as soon as possible, for they must surely have realised by now that the US's claims of ensuring security and peace have been nothing but lies,'' Mojtaba Khamenei said on X.
(The US had negotiated a deal with Saudi Arabia on June 8, 1974, under which Saudi Arabia agreed to invest their vast surplus oil revenues into the US economy. In exchange, the US said Washington would provide military protection, weapons, and techn...