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Iran plane crash Ayatollah Ali Khamenei defends armed forces in a rare address 

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Iran's supreme leader has called for unity following protests over the accidental shooting down of a passenger plane leading Friday prayers in Tehran for the first time in eight years.

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Ayatollah Ali IIKhameneidescribed the destruction of the Ukrainian airliner as tragic and he offered his condolences to the families of the 176 people.

Who died well there were anti-American chants in the crowd the supreme leader defended the country's armed forces said the Revolutionary Guard.

The elite unit responsible for the disaster maintained the security of the country with me is custom energy from the BBC's Persian service,

And Custer interesting there that the supreme leader is defending the military perhaps predictably whilst expressing sympathy for what's happened obviously,

That was his aim today basically, to defend the regime at a time when he's coming under a lot of the pressure he's ruled the government the Revolutionary Guards.

Ø Revolutionary Guards murderers:

That people are calling for him to step down on the streets of Iran they calling Revolutionary Guards murderers,

So he was out there to defend that and unity and push for the same policies that he's been following he offered condolences to the families of those people who died at the plane crash,

But no apologies and in spite of the fact that for the last few days when we knew that he was coming to deliver the sermons at the Friday prayers that

He should provide some kind of apology, none of that and he and he struck obviously very defiant tone an anti-American tone again as you might expect nothing new there and the same thing with European powers to he attacked them.

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei criticized them calling them enemies so many people I talked to commentators and also social media reaction to his speech today it seems to me that he didn't really offer anything new under the mystic front listen to some of what was said.

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said today you have a young the author over the past few days a great and brave Iranian leader and an Iraqi the fighter is known for his spirit of sacrifice,

And loyalty was martyred by American military missiles and on orders from the terrorists US president this the crime was not committed during the confrontation battle,

But took place in a despicable and cowardly manner through a missile attack the Iranian Revolutionary Guards destroyed the American base

And crushed the arrogance and the haughtiness of that unjust State it should now leave the region as the ultimate punishment shorts a part of what was said.

Today I mean he has not spoken in this form for some eight years how significant is this obviously the spotlight is on Iran now this was the bit of his sermon that

He delivered in Arabic eight years ago he did the same the thing he delivered part of his sermon in Arabic those days it was at the height of the Arab Spring,

And he wanted to project it as an Islamic awakening and he came off with this Arabic language sermon today he wanted to project power in the Arab and Islamic.

The world in Arabic saying that we did this we attacked the US bases and his message to the region these days it seems to be everyone to try and put all the efforts behind driving U.S.

Out of the region seems to be that after the killing of consuming certain money this is his policy in the region he wants Iran's allies Iran hi Arab world forces political parties everyone who listens to Iran to try to drive the U.S. out of the region,

And that was the message that he projected top words but it does it look as though immediate conflict is now less likely it seems that way the temperature has come down massively with the Americans,

And the chances of war but internally I don't think he has managed to shore up his shaky government that much Castro Nagy thank you very much indeed.