Obama last seen nodding in approval.

Via JPost:

Deputy Commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, Brig.-Gen. Hossein Salami, said that the US status in the world has deteriorated and that its collapse is near.

“Today nowhere in the Muslim world” does anyone pull out “a red carpet for American officials and that’s why [US President Barack] Obama secretly” showed up at Bagram military base in Afghanistan without first letting President Hamid Karzai know, said Salami, according to a report by Iran’s Fars News Agency.

“And this shows that the US Empire in the world is coming to an end,” he said.

Obama made a surprise visit to Afghanistan on Sunday and spoke to the Afghan president, but did not meet with him.

The Afghan president rejected an invitation extended through the US embassy to meet Obama at Bagram.

“President Karzai said he would warmly welcome him if he comes to the palace but in no way he would go (to) Bagram to meet him,” Abdul Karim Khurram, Karzai’s chief of staff, told Reuters.