„Observing the 37th anniversary of the taking of hostages at the U.S. embassy in Tehran on November 4, 1979, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei gave a blistering anti-American speech, Wednesday, with one major exception: the Ayatollah used a relatively positive tone for Donald Trump. (…) Although for many Americans, Khamenei’s words may appear as straightforward recitation of Trump’s words, they are perceived by the Iranian public as unusual words of praise of Trump. Khamenei usually uses terribly harsh words for the officials of the U.S. whom he regards as ‚the Great Satan.‘ (…)
[L]ike Putin, Khamenei feels threatened by the attractions of American democracy. Unlike Clinton, Trump appears like an authoritarian leader with little regard for civil liberties, civil rights, democracy, constitutionalism, human rights, international law, and women’s rights. Trump’s constant attacks on the legitimacy and credibility of the American electoral system as rigged by an elite of globalists are used by Putin and Khamenei to argue that the American system is corrupt and manipulated by a handful of elites behind the scenes. Trump’s statement that Obama and Hillary Clinton created ISIS, has been used by the Lebanese Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah as vindicating the claim that the U.S. has created ISIS, a claim made earlier by Putin and Khamenei.“ (Masoud Kazemzadeh: „Why is the Ayatollah praising Donald Trump?“)