Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei took aim at U.S. President Donald Trump’s recent visit to Israel during a speech in Tehran on Monday, calling his Knesset address “empty words” and “buffoonery.”

Trump addressed the Knesset on Oct. 13, thanking the Israeli military for its role in destroying Iran’s nuclear program as part of “Operation Rising Lion” in mid-June, saying that if Tehran had built the bomb, there would not have been a deal with Hamas.

“The U.S. president tried to give hope and boost the morale of the disappointed Zionists in Occupied Palestine. … This is my analysis of the U.S. president’s trip,” Khamenei said at a meeting with winners of international scientific Olympiads and sports champions, the semi-official Tasnim News Agency reported.

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