Srinagar, Dec. 6 -- Iran isfacing a smear campaign by the propaganda machinery of global arrogance as part of their war of attrition against theIslamic Republic, representative of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Sayyed Ali Khamenei said during his brief visit to Srinagar.

Ayatollah Mehdi Mahdavipur arrived here to attend the fortieth day ceremony of veteran Kashmiri leader Maulana Muhammad Abbas Ansari on Sunday.

"For twenty years after the triumph of Islamic revolution the enemy was urging countries not to supply arms to Iran and twenty years later the enemy is urging countries not to buy weapons from Iran", Agha Mehdi said underlining the success and progress Iran has made despite crippling sanctions whichaccording to him has 'unnerved thepo...