US botched foreign wars but still lectures Tehran, Iranian cleric says
A senior Iranian cleric on Friday rebuked Washington for its wars and occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan in a riposte to President Donald Trump's blistering Riyadh speech this month criticizing Iran's underdevelopment.
“They were in Iraq and Afghanistan for 20 years but didn’t build a single power plant or proper infrastructure,” said Mohammad Mohammadian, deputy head of the Supreme Leader’s communications office, according to state news agency IRNA.
His remarks came in response to US President Donald Trump’s speech during a tour of Arab capitals where he accused Iranian leaders of decades of “neglect and mismanagement,” saying they had turned “green farmland into dry deserts” and allowed the country’s infrastructure to collapse.














