Iran's Khamenei accuses West of attacking the Farsi language

From Ayatollah Khamenei's Twitter account:

#Farsi was once the language of #science frm Constantinople to India;It was the official #language in Ottoman capital for a long time. When #British 1st came to #India,1 of their 1st measures was to impede #Farsi; they stopped Farsi w/their own particular tricks and deceits. Some ppl use #foreign expressions & feel disgraced to use terms in their mother tongue; they feel mortified! They write their mother tongue in English letters! Why? Why should we perish our mother tongue with our own hands?

Poor Khamenei. If he would venture out to a Tehran shopping mall he would have an aneurysm.