![Days of God: A look at Irans mounting crises](https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/7cb42857aa84a216681d6e6a3f7b9326)
The Islamic Republic has been reeling from one crisis to another, from the targeted killing by the
United States of its top general to the Revolutionary Guard's accidental shootdown of a passenger plane carrying scores of young people, most of them Iranians. U.S.
sanctions have crippled its
economy as tensions with America have soared. In a rare Friday sermon in Tehran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei stuck to the playbook
Iran has relied on since 1979, blaming the country's woes on the U.S. and other Western powers, and proclaiming that Iranians still support the Islamic Revolution.