Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi met on Saturday with representatives of Tehran’s regional terrorist allies on the sidelines of the funeral of slain Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei
Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei a no-show as of Sunday morning.
Araghchi held separate meetings with representatives of Hezbollah, Hamas, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and the Houthis, Iran’s Press TV outlet reported.
“The Zionist enemy and the criminal U.S. imagine that they can destroy the resistance by physically assassinating its leaders,” Araghchi said in remarks published by the state-run outlet. “Yet in reality, the pure blood of the resistance martyrs has led to the disgrace and defeat of the American criminals and the Zionist regime.”