US is like the cat in 'Tom and Jerry'; it will lose, says Iran's Khamenei

The US has tried various political, economic, military and propaganda undertakings to hit the Islamic Republic throughout its four decades. But all these plots failed

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei expressed defiance of the US with a side order of American pop culture, invoking the cat-and-mouse adventures of Tom and Jerry.

“The US has tried various political, economic, military and propaganda undertakings to hit the Islamic Republic” throughout its four decades, the nation’s top religious leader told a gathering of officials on Wednesday. But “all these plots failed. Like the famous cat in Tom and Jerry they will lose again..”

In the cartoon series created 78 years ago, the plucky mouse Jerry consistently outsmarted the larger cat Tom, although both did their best to torment each other.

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