Iran’s supreme leader called President Trump a “clown” who will backstab the Iranian people.

In his first Friday sermon in Tehran in eight years, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Trump will “push a poisonous dagger” into the backs of Iranians and only pretends to support them, according to the Associated Press. Trump tweeted a message of support in Farsi last week, telling Iranians protesting the supreme leader that he stands behind them.

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