Iran's Supreme Leader gives a sermon with a rifle in his hand

Reminiscent of Osama bin Laden who always liked to appear before his supporters on video with a Kalashnikov in his hand, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Hosseini Khamenei, Iran's Supreme Leader, has given a sermon and said prayers to his people holding an assault rifle in his hand. The image is of a man wanting to be seen as a preacher warrior or perhaps a warrior preacher. During his address he said the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7 was justified. The rifle was his prop. He also said Iran's missile attack on Israel was justified because any nation had the right to retaliate in self-defence for violent action against it. It has to be remembered that Iran sponsors violent action through its proxy militia/terrorist forces spread out in the Middle East to attack Israel and western merchant ships in the Red Sea and Mediterranean. This is all a vicious circle of weird logic by the Iranian leader. With such thinking it is difficult to see how Iran will ever again be part of the international community.