Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei Monday said US forces fighting militia in Najaf were defeated by the "spiritual glory" of the Iraqi Shia holy city.
He was quoted by state television as speaking on the occasion of the birthday of Hazrat Ali (RA).
"This year's anniversary coincided with the ferocious and dastardly insult of the occupiers against the holy shrine of Imam Ali," Khamenei told a crowd of Islamist students.
"Despite their modern equipment, the occupiers failed before the spiritual glory of this holy place and this is one of the amazing incidents of our time."
The battle in Najaf ended last week when Iraq's spiritual leader Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani brokered a peace deal as US and Iraqi government forces pounded the area around the Hazrat Imam Ali (RA) shrine where rebel cleric Moqtada Sadr's Mehdi Army militia were holding out.
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