Viewers told him to 'read the room' after the travel video on the day the Iran war started.
More than 7,500 square kilometres of ocean was surveyed in January for the missing Boeing 777 jet, which disappeared more than ten years ago.
Khamenei will have a central say in Iran's war strategy, with the country's powerful paramilitary Revolutionary Guard answering directly to him.
It marks another foreign escalation by the United States, days after beginning strikes targeting nuclear facilities and government officials in Iran.
Drones have been targeting oil tankers sailing through the strait of Hormuz (Picture: REUTERS) Iran’s Revolutionary Guards hit a US tanker in the Gulf this morning leaving it in flames,state media h