Khamenei says Iran does not have or need regional proxy forces – World

TEHRAN: Iran’s supreme leader denied Sunday that the groups around the region functioned as Tehran’s proxies, warning that if his country chose to “take action”, it would not need them anyway.

The remarks came after a year in which Iran-backed Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in Gaza suffered heavy losses in wars with Israel, and two weeks after the fall of Syrian president Bashar…