President Trump told Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei to stop killing his people and to make his country “great again.” “The noble people of Iran—who love America—deserve a government that’s more interested in helping them achieve their dreams than killing them for demanding respect. Instead of leading Iran toward ruin, its leaders should abandon terror and Make Iran Great Again!” Trump said in a tweet. This happened after Khamenei accused Trump of being insincere when he expressed solidarity with Iranian protesters.

“The villainous U.S. [government] repeatedly says that they are standing by the Iranian [people]. They lie,” Khamenei tweeted. Khamenei delivered an address wherein he insisted that Iran would “not bow to U.S. pressure after months of crushing sanctions and a series of recent crises, from the American killing of a top Iranian general to Iran’s accidental shootdown of a Ukrainian passenger plane.”

The noble people of Iran—who love America—deserve a government that's more interested in helping them achieve their dreams than killing them for demanding respect. Instead of leading Iran toward ruin, its leaders should abandon terror and Make Iran Great Again! https://t.co/RLjGsC5WLc — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 17, 2020

According to Khamenei, the mass funerals for Gen. Qassem Soleimani show that Iranians support the Islamic Republic despite its recent trials. Khamenei added that the “cowardly” hit on Soleimani “had taken out the most effective commander in the battle against the Islamic State (ISIS) group,” reported Fox News.