Supreme Leader calls for
elaborating on tenets of late philosopher
Ayatollah Motahhari
Tehran, April 30, IRNA
Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei
said on Sunday that the unique character of the late philosopher Ayatollah
Morteza Motahhari should be introduced to the public. In a meeting with
members of the central council in charge of commemorating martyr Morteza
Motahhari, the Supreme Leader said that his eminence was a thinker and
philosopher with knowledge about Fiqh and mystics.
"Ayatollah Motahhari was the only philosopher among the well-known
Islamic philosophers whose views were directly consistent with social and
political issues and life matters, so he had unique character which should
be accurately explained to the public," the Supreme Leader said.
The Supreme Leader appreciated the services so far in propagating the
thoughts of Ayatollah Motahhari and said that young scholars are expected
to focus on different aspects of Motahhari's thoughts and encourage
students of the universities to embark on research studies on Motahhari's
tenets and school of thought.
Tehran, April 26 - Islamic Revolution Leader received Wednesday morning
thousands of workers from across the country, expressing hope for
improvement of their living conditions, social security and other problems
of workers community in due time under prudence and serious follow-up of
the serving administration.
His Eminence, Ayatollah Sayed Ali Khamenei congratulated the audience
on the national Week of Workers and admired workers role in various
occasions in the past 27 years as praiseworthy and effective.
The IR Leader pointed to the policies set by the administration to
resolve problems facing the workers community, urging for officials to
transcend words and put measures into action, gradually settling their
problems such as job security, provisional contracts and joblessness
emenating from mismanagement of certain factory managers.
Ayatollah Khamenei said that under Islam, worker and employer maintain
relationship like two colleagues or two partners. The IR Leader ruled out
exploitative and instrumentalist attitudes kept by Capitalism and
Communism towards workers, adding that under Islam, mutual relations
between worker and employer should follow sincerity, affection and
appreciation. The IR Leader urged appreciation of rights and respect to
both of the two coral elements of advance in the country. Ayatollah
Khamenei assigned the Legislative and the Administration to regulate the
affair.
Ayatollah Khamenei then expounded on the position of work and worker in
Islam, saying that in Islam's views, work is deemed worship as a means to
earn a living, but far beyond that, Islam considers work per se as a
righteous act and deems it appreciable. "Provided the view governs the
country, full scale progress will be secured," Ayatollah Khamenei asserted.
The Islamic Revolution Leader praised the advancing and confident
movement of the Iranian nation, adding that the great nation of Iran has
weathered various fields of progress and honor and proved seasoned, hence
the enemy's rage and confusion.
The IR Leader touched on America's perpetuated intimidation during the
past 27 years, adding that American statesmen speak the language of
intimidation and threat, but the enlightened and determined nation of Iran
and its representative government and officials will shrugs them off.
Ayatollah Khamenei described the Iranian nation and the overall I.R. of
Iran as peace-lover, adding that the Iranian nation and the Islamic System
never keep hostile behavior to any country. However, he warned Americans
to understand that in case they embark on any aggression against the
Islamic Iran, their interests everywhere possible in the world will be
damaged and the Iranian nation will respond to any strike with twice as
much powerful as they may do.
Ayatollah Khamenei considered efforts to build Iran as the best and
prior form of struggle against enemies. The IR Leader referred to despair
on the part of enemies about military confrontation with the Iranian
nation as well as their plots to drive wedge in people ranks, urging for
everyone busy working everywhere in the vast front of Iran to fulfill
duties by further vigilance, seriousness, effort and discipline as well as
promoted faith and spiritual motivations so as to frustrate enemy plots.
The meeting began with a report by Minister of Work and Social Affairs
on the Administration's measures to promote status of workers community
and the country's economy.
Jahromi acknowledged that his ministry aims at optimal use of resources
through increasing capabilities of workforce, provision of social security,
rationalizing salaries, paving way for boosted investment, fair dispensing
of banking facilities among small-scale, short-yield agencies, and
regulating of worker-employer relations in a fair and sustainable manner.
Supreme Leader: Iran will
retaliate US attack two times stronger
Tehran, April 26, IRNA
Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei
said on Wednesday that Iran will retaliate any US aggression two times
stronger.
In a meeting with a group of workers, the Supreme Leader said that the
US has been threatening Iran over the past 27 years since victory of the
Islamic Revolution, because, American officials usually express themselves
with the language of threat. "The Iranian nation is vigilant and has stood
by the government. The US administration should know that they will suffer
two times if they dare to inflict any damage on Iranian interests."
"The Iranian nation and government advocate world peace and security
and will never attack anyone in the future. But, if the US ventured into
any aggression on Iran, Iran will retaliate by damaging the US interests
worldwide twice as much as the US may inflict on Iran."
Supreme Leader recommends
Muslim nations to develop solidarity
Tehran, April 25, IRNA
Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei
on Tuesday held talks with Sudanese President Omar Ahmad al-Bashir on
trouble on the western part of Sudan and hoped that the Sudanese nation
would protect territorial integrity and solve the problem in light of
national solidarity.
The Supreme Leader said that Sudan enjoys extensive natural and human
resources and it has been subject to pressure of foreign powers because of
its independent policy. The Supreme Leader said that capability and
resources of the Muslim world is abundant enough to enable them to
overcome their problems, adding that in case of adequate use of material
and human resources, the Muslim states would stand against bullying of
arrogant powers. Ayatollah Khamenei recommended the Muslim nations to
develop solidarity and avoid discord to foil conspiracies of the arrogant
powers and said that the global arrogance led by the US is getting weaker
day by day adding that God Almighty promised that the revolting and
arrogant powers face destruction.
The Supreme Leader said that the current situation in the United States,
Palestine, Iraq and Afghanistan indicated failure of the US adding that in
case of solidarity and cooperation among the Islamic states, the US will
retreat from its arrogant stance. Ayatollah Khamenei drew attention of the
Muslim world to the need to resolve the Palestinian crisis and said that
Palestine is the key for removal of Muslims problems worldwide.
Al-Bashir expressed pleasure with growing trend of relations between
Iran and Sudan and said that Iran's success in the field of producing fuel
on laboratory scale is a great success for all the Muslims worldwide. He
said that Sudan signed peace accord and briefed the Supreme Leader on
situation in Darfur. He added that anti-Sudan propaganda campaign of the
Western media emanated from Islamic policy of the Khartoum government and
the country's oil resources.
Supreme Leader Meets Senior
Army Commanders
Wednesday April 19, 2006
Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei
in his meeting in Tehran with the senior military brass of the country's
armed forces, has stressed the necessity for elevating the level of
training and skills, updating educational texts, having a new perspective
towards discipline and making the most of all potentials.
Ayatollah Khamenei said that having hope towards the future is the key
to success. He reiterated that such a spirit will lead to innovation and
army commanders by identifying potential elements and training future
commanders must try to upgrade the quality of military units more than
before.
The Leader congratulated the Army Day and said the political duty of
the army is to uplift the morale of military forces. He reviewed a report
on the capabilities of different units of the army and stressed the
readiness of the Islamic Republic's army to confront any threats by the
enemies.
IR Leader urges promotion
of Army
Tehran, april 19 - Islamic Revolution Leader and Commander-in-Chief,
His Eminence Ayatollah Sayed Ali Khamenei recieved Wednesday the IRI's
Army Chief and other high-ranking officers.
Ayatollah Khamenei told the audience that motivation and hope are key
to progress and accomplishment, adding that any spirit of hope could bring
about innovation.
The IR Leader urged for the Army commanders to identify talented and
promising personnels and train commanding staff for future. Ayatollah
Khamenei also called for promotion of well-trained corps.
Ayatollah Khamenei honored the Army Day and emphasized on upgrading of
training and skills within the Army via application of state-of-the-art
material, modern approaches and optimal use of all possibilities at hand.
The Commander-in-Chief also put emphasis on the ideo-political
assignment of the Army in raising spirituality among personnels and
providing neccesary training material to that effect with revised content.
During the meeting, Major General Salehi, the Army Chief, delivered a
report about the corps under his command.
He also called for preparedness of the Army's threefold forces.
The General Staff Chief as well as commanders of the Ground Force, the
Airforce, and the Navy briefed the IR Leader on their missions.
IR Leader receives
statesmen
16/04/2006
Tehran, April 15 - Islamic Revolution Leader, His Eminence Ayatollah
Sayed Ali Khamenei Sunday morning received statesmen from home and abroad
in a meeting held to mark the auspicious birth anniversary of the Noblest
Messenger of Allah (S.A.) and his revered descendant Imam Jaafar al-Sadegh
(A.S.) Heads of Three Powers and officials of the Islamic System as well
as ambassadors of the Islamic Countries were attending the meeting.
Ayatollah Khamenei congratulated on the birth anniversary of the Revered
Messenger (S.A.) and Imam Jaafari al-Sadegh (A.S.) and honored the Week of
Unity.
The IR Leader asserted on how significant an issue the fate of the
Islamic Ummah is for the immaculate soul of the Noblest Messenger (S.A.).
He also touched on the tribulations befallen on the Islamic Ummah in the
course of history, noting that the Islamic world has come to its fateful
and historically determining point.
"At this juncture, Muslims will come by their happiness, advance and
dignity provided that political, scientific and cultural elites of the
Islamic world fulfill their responsibilities and help the Islamic Ummah
choose the right path of unity and stand-up to bullying powers. Unless
this happens, the Islamic Ummah will remain far away from the path of
happiness for decades," the IR Leader noted. Ayatollah Khamenei urged for
Muslim to cherish their invaluable history and legacy as well as their
dignity by distancing themselves from chasms and obsession. The Leader
also urged for elite figures of the world Muslim to avoid selfishness and
carnal desires and feel responsible towards Muslim unity and solidarity, "since
enemies of Islam have made large investments to tear apart even the very
feeble unity of the current time, for whose attempts, the ongoing
situation in Iraq and other parts of the Islamic world is immediate
evidence."
Islamic Revolution Leader pointed out that if the Islamic world was
united, the Palestinian nation and their ballot-chosen government would
have not left alone today under pressure and intimidation and the
principal perpetrators of the calamities facing the Palestinian people
would have not speak as if the nation owes them. "On the other hand, the
European states who profess to cherish human rights would have not idly
looked on the ongoing atrocities against the Palestinian nation in cold
blood," IR Leader added.
Ayatollah Khamenei called on the Islamic world to voice their unanimous
support for the Palestinian nation and officials as well as their
persistence with their platform. The Leader hailed the Noblest Messenger
of Allah (A.S.) as the headspring of love and affection as well as the
point of unity of Muslims.
"For the same reason, Zionist-affiliated stooge penmen insulted this
bedrock point of the Islamic world," Ayatollah Khamenei said, calling on
political, cultural and scientific elites to align themselves with that
focal point and make efforts in the path of Muslim unity and unanimity
more than ever before.
14/04/2006
Tehran, April 14 - Islamic Revolution Leader, His Eminence, Ayatollah
Sayyed Ali Khamenei Friday afternoon addresed the opening session of the
third International conference on Qods and support for the rights of the
Palestinian people. The text of his remarks in full is as follows.
In the Name of Allah,
The All-beneficent, the All-merciful
All praise belongs to Allah, the Lord of the Worlds, and may His Peace
and blessings be upon the supreme Messenger, the Trustworthy Prophet, and
his immaculate Household, the chosen testaments.
Dear guests-scholars, thinkers, statesmen, and valiant guards of the
ideological frontiers of Islam and warriors on the frontlines- I welcome
you all! You have come together to confer and deliberate upon the problem
of the occupation of Palestine and the holy city of Quds - the biggest
catastrophe that has befallen the Islamic Ummah in contemporary history as
a result of colonial plots. The concurrence of this session with the
birthday anniversar of the great Messenger, may Allah's bllessings and
Peace be upon him and his Household, and the holding of this convention in
a year named after his blessed name by the Iranian people, should inspire
us with diligence, solidarity and resolution and renewed trust in the
Divine promise, presaging, God willing, the decent of Divine mercy and
help.
The present era is an era of Islamic awakening with Palestine at its
very core. For about 60 years since the occupation of Palestine, the
oppressed Palestinian nation have been through periods of severe ordeal
and have undergone various tribulations, beginning with an unequal and
desperate resistance, followed by homelessness and exile, devastation of
homes and homeland, massacre of dear ones, recourse to international
bodies, taking resort in fruitless political bargainings and the totally
hapless gamble of negotiating with the occupier with the mediation of
those very powers who bear the principal guilt for bringing about this
calamity and are responsible for its continuation!
The outcome of this historical experience was to bring the proud young
generation of that brave and enlightened people to peaks of awakening,
unleashing the volcano of the Intifada. The opposite camp has also passed
through various stages: extending from merciless and unbridled savagery,
ferocious destructiveness and genocide, military aggression against
neighboring states and entertaining of the Nile-to-Euphrates pretensions,
to political and economic encroachment on the region by exploiting the
weakness and betrayal of some politicians of the Muslim world... Leading
up to its sudden encounter with the awakened lion of Palestine, aroused
from slumber, and the roaring Intifada of an arisen people at the end of
their patience.
The outcome of this eventful process-backed all along by the power and
wealth of Britain and America with their disgraceful support for Zionist
criminals-is the present unsteadiness, uncertainty and despair among the
leaders of the usurper regime and their encounter with the roaring and
rising waves of Islamic awakening. It is true that Palestine still remains
the scene of most heinous crimes by the Zionist usurpers and foreigners
against the land's oppressed owners. Most barbarous and unparalleled acts
of inhumanity are flagrantly committed and proudly announced by the
Zionist regime. but a glance at the record of this 60-year-long drama
reveals a startling and instructive reality, which is nothing other than a
drastically changed scene and a shifting of power across the fronts inside
Palestine-as well as beyond it, within the Middle East, and across the
Muslim world-for whose long-term subjugation, basically, the disastrous
usurpation of Palestine had been planned and executed by Western satesmen.
Consider the Palestine of the 40's: a land in the heart of the Arab
world, an unaware people, an impoverished country under a weak government,
with colonial puppets as its neighbors. The wealthiest, the most
well-armed and nefarious of Western powers urged on by the Zionists wrests
this country from its Muslim people and hands it over to a racist,
rapacious and terrorist party. All Western governments, as well as both
the world's rival political blocs, support it. The region's puppet regimes,
such as Pahlavi Iran and some others, betray Islam and Arab identity to
place themselves at its service. Money, arms, science and technology are
put at its disposal from all sides. The United States acts at its patron,
attorney and steward, and this is the only matter regarding which the
Soviet Union has no dispute with the United States. U.N. resolutions,
despite their weak and cautious tone, are totally ignored by the fake and
lawless Zionist regime.
Encouraged by US and European support, it launches military attacks on
Egypt, Syria, Jordan and Lebanon and invades their territories with the
intent of permanent occupation. it raves recklessly and threatens with
assassination, murder and pillage. Notorious terrorists attain to high
office one after another, the last of them being the infamous war criminal
of the Sabra and Shatila massacres. For several decades the usurper regime
maintains its violent, intransigent, extortionate and irrepressible face
on the Palestinian scene.
One the opposite front, following the initial weakness and friability
and failure of the half-done efforts of the early years, experiments are
made, one after another. The theoretical and practical products of
nationalism, marxism and the like, fail the tests. Religious faith, held
strongly by the people, gradually creates shimmers of light on the narrow
and bleak horizon with the courage of patient and steadfast combatants.
At that moment, all of a sudden, the sun of the Islamic Revolution
rises in the east. There, the name of Palestine was written on the high
banner of this Divine revolution along with the Name of God and Islamic
shariah. This was a point of departure in the course of events, and with
it began the unraveling of the usurper regime and the decline in the
region of the absolute dominance of the United States, which had been a
consistent collaborator of the usurper regime in its crimes. There emerge
jihadist groups, in Palestine and Lebanon, with faith in Islam,
constituting a new generation of genuine and unswerving combatants. The
values of jihad and martyrdom are revived, and the genuine power, that of
a nation resolute in its spirit of firmness and sacrifice, recovers its
place in the political equations of Palestine and the region. The noble
blood of martyrdom-seeking youths and the presence of dauntless warriors
within the struggle invalidate all calculations of worldly materialists
and hedonists, opening a new arena where blood triumphs over the sword.
Today, sixty years after those trying beginnings the forces of truth,
now fresh and resolute, with revived hopes and motives grounded in
faith-things that absorb the young generations- continue to grow stronger
day by day in Palestine, and marching with their heroic jihad towards
manifest victory, inflict on the enemy a series of military and political
defeats, one after another, in Palestine and Lebanon. It appears as if the
following words of God were addressed to them:
Allah hs promised you abundant spoils which you will capture. He has
expedited this one for you, and withheld men's hands from you, so that it
may be a sign for the faithful, and that he may guide you to a straight
path. And oter [spoils] which you have not yet captured: Allah has
comprehended them, and Allah has power over all things. (48:20-21)
On the opposite front, the forces of falsehood, having faced repeated
retreats and having lost vain hopes of the earlier years, falter in
disunity, uncertainty and bewilderment. The United States itself, their
principal supporter, is confronted with insolvable problems in the Middle
East and faces mounting hatred of the region's nations or rather the
entire world. The Nile-to-Euphrates agenda is slashed to that security
within the wall that usurper draws around itself, knowing no other means
to confront the arisen Palestinian nation except tanks, bombs, prisons and
bulldozers. The same means whose use through the past decades has
transformed the Palestinian nation into hardened steel. Henceforth too,
their effect will be no other than to make them yet more hardened and
resistant.
Brothers and Sisters!
Today the Palestinian nation is in the midst of a difficult and
lont-term jihad. This struggle is not limited to Palestine. Rather it is
the prominient part of the wide front of the Muslim world's struggle
against aggressive, murderous and marauding imperialists. The Islamic
world has awakened, and all over the Muslim world the slogan for islamic
governance tops the agenda amongst the youth, the intelligentsia and the
universities. Islamic Iran, which has developed and implemented the idea
of religion-based democracy, continues to advance and grow in strength.
Genuine Islam, propounded by imam Khomeini as a teaching purged of
syncretism, bigotry and obscurantism, has extended beyond to the political
stage in many countries and taken roots in the Islamic world, east and
west. The venom of Western liberal democracy, which American propaganda
slyly tried to present as a healing medicine, has hurt the body and soul
of teh Islamic Ummah.
Iraq, Afghanistan and Lebanon, Guantanamo, Abu Ghuraib and other
dungeons, and above all the towards of Gaza and the West Bank, have
translated for our peoples the meaning of such Western terms as freedom
and human rights, so brazenly and impudently pre ached by the United
States regime.
Today Western liberal democracy is as much discrebited and despised in
the Muslim world as the socialism and communism of the erstwhile Eastern
bloc. Muslim nations seek to obtain freedom, dignity, progress and honour
in the shade of Islam. Muslim nati ons are sick and tired of the
two-hundred-year domination of foreign colonial powers and are fed up with
poverty, humiliation and imposed backwardness. We have a right as well as
the ability to respond to the humiliation and hubris of hegemonic powers.
This is the genuine sentiment of our nations and that of this generation
all over the Muslim world, from East Asia to the heart of Africa. This is
a st ruggle that is complex, diversified, difficult and prolonged. It will
not be an exaggeration to say that Palestine is the symbol and banner of
this struggle. Today the entire Muslim world should consider the issue of
Palestine as its own problem. That is the key to the relief of the Islamic
Uummah. Palestine should be restored to the Palestinian nation. The entire
country should be administered by a single Palestinian state and a
government elected by all Palestinians. The fifty-year-long effort of
Britain, the United States and the Zionists to erase the name of Palestine
from the world map and the dissolve the Palestinian nation in other
nations has faile d. Persecution, injustice and brutality have produced
the opposite results. Today the Palestinian people are much more alive,
daring and effective than their ancestors sixty years ago. This trend,
which emerged in the shade of faith, jihaddd and the prou d Intifada,
should continue until the Divine promise as declared by God materializes.
Allah has promised those of you who have faith and do righteous deeds
that He will surely make them successors in the earth, just as He made
thosee who were before them successors, and He will surely establish for
them their religion which He has appr oved for them, and that He will
surely change their state to security after their fear, while they worship
Me, not ascribing any partners to Me. And whoever is ungrateful after that
-- it is they who are the transgressors. (24:55)
Achievement of this higher goal on a wider plane -- that is, freedom of
the Muslim world from imperialist dominance, intimidation and
interventions, and life in the shade of Islam -- is certainly possible.
However, it depends on another kind of strugg le, one which has a bearing
on science, politics and morality. The Iranian people have tested this
thesis for the last 27 years and they have tasted its sweet fruits. This
struggle is based on a threefold pursuit: the pursuit of faith and
scholarship/sci ence and empowerment of the people. The reward of this
path is that each steady step forward makes the next step yet steadier,
each stage covered makess the next stage more accessible.
Whether it is jihad for Palestine or for the Islamic world, the main
condition of success is staunch loyalty to the principless. The enemy's
constant aim is to banish principles. By deceit, promises and threats, he
persists in his efforts to force othe rs to disregard them. When
principles are abandoned or overlooked, the Islamic world will lose its
compass, as a result putting itself at the mercy of the rules made by the
enemy, with obvious consequences. Often some of our own people, following
the enemy's cue, advise us to abandon our principles, thinking it to be
some kind of tactic or expediency. Whatever their motive, whether it is
weeakness mixed with ignorance, or greed accompaaniedd with treache ry,
the following worlds of God apply to them:
Yet you will see those in whose hearts is sickness rushing to them,
saying, "We fear lest a turn of fortune should visit us." Maybe Allah will
bring about a victory or a command from Him, and then they will be
regretful for what they have kept secret i n their hearts. (5:52)
They wil derive no benefit by helping the enemy. The United States and
the West have repeatedly demonstrated that. They show no mercy to those
who surrender, and quite simply discard their collaborators as soon as
they cease to be useful. Some others try to inspire awe for the enemy's
power and warn those who struggle for a just cause against resisting. A
dangerous fallacy underlies such suggestions.
Firstly, the judicious person avoids conflict only with an enemy that
dose not threaten his identity, vital interests and his very existence. To
resist and enemy that dosee pose such a threat is a definitive judgement
of human reason. Because it is evi dent that certain damage resulting from
surrender to him will be the same as the probable damage proceeding from
resisting him, along with the additional disgrace and humiliation. Today
global imperialism, with the US president as its spokesman, openly t
hreatens the Muslim world and the US and British intelligence agencies is
engaged in subversive activities throughout the Muslim world. Islamic
sanctities are openly insulted with the help of their funds and with their
encouragement. Even the celestial v isage of the supreme Messenger is not
secure from their insolence. Thousands of movies, computer games and such
stuff are produced and marketed with the purpose of casting aspersions on
Islam and Muslims. All of this is besides their crimes of encroachme nt on
Islamic countries, the massacres commmitted in Palestine, Iraq and
Afghanistan and their brazen interventions in Muslim countries aimed to
secure their illegitimate political and economic interests. Surrendering
to such an enemy is totally contrary to the judgements of reason, and
resisting him is the sole prescription of reason and religion.
Secondly, exaggerating the enemy's power is itself one of his tactics.
Money, political and military force and stockpiles of modern weapons
overawe governments that lack the support of their own people. Military
victory against a regime like that of Sadd am, who did not enjoy his
people's support and whose army stranger to the nations of faith and jihad,
is not an evidence of strength. However, the United States could not
subdue the Iraqi people. To the same extent that Iraq has contested and
unmasked US pretensions of bringing democracy to the Middle East, it has
also challenged and mocked the pretensions of absolute American power and
invincibility. Ifgovernments relying on popular support possess the asset
of faith in God and self-confidence, they wi ll never be defeated if they
pursue a policy of defying (imperialist pressures). Their steadfastness in
face of the hardships resulting from resistance will be rewarded with
victory and it will destroy the myth of the invincibility of the aggressor
enemy . This has been proved in the present as well as in not-so-distant
past and, God willing, will continue to be proved henceforth.
The connected chain of US plots against Iran, Iraq, Syria and Lebanon
with the aim of establishings its dominance over the Middle East under the
auspices of the Zionist regime will never succeed and will not earn
American leaders anything but fatal ruin. If, fortuitously, the United
States should deign to follow the dictates of reason and conscience, it
should abondon its obstinacy against the will of the Iraqi people and
defer to their vote in favour of their elected government. It should
respect the go vernment elected by the Palestinians and harness its
lawless and vicious ally, the usurper Zionist regime. It should
immediately free the wrongfully held inmates of Guantanamo, Abu Ghuraib
and other secret US prisons.
It should stop its plots against Syr ia, Lebanon and Islamic Republic
of Iran and refrain from inflaming with its naivety the sensitive region
of the Middle East and the Persian Gulf. Finally, this is what i have to
say to the brave and resistant Palestinians:
Becoming an exemplary nation, you have brought honour to the Islamic
world with your splendid struggle, steadfastness and resistance. The heavy
burden of this great ordeal did not bend your back, and the noble blood of
your martyrs has hardened and deepe ned your resolve and firmness. Your
enemy's brutality and bloodthirstiness, the massacres, destructon and
kidnappings perpetrated by him and his barbarism could not make you turn
your backs, and today you are stronger than ever. Until now the blood of
su ch great martyrs as Shaikh Ahmad Yasin, Fathi Shiqqi, Rantisi, and the
blood of your martyrdom-seeking youths and victims of oppression has
triumphed over the sword and, with God's power and might, will be
increasingly victorious hereafter.
We, in the Islamic Republic of Iran, as well as the mass of Muslims and
freedom loving people of the world, share your sorrows and sufferings.
Your martyrs are our martyrs, your sorrow and grief are our own sorrow and
grief, and your victory is our own. The great Islamic Ummah cannot remain
silent and indifferent unlike the devious West toward the wrongs
perpetrated against you, or extend its friendly hand toward your enemy.
Whoever does that will be your enemy, and definitely the Islamic nations
stand absolved of such a grat sin. It is the duty of the Islamic Ummah to
offer you all the help that it can and assist you in persevering upon this
blessed path. Keep your trust in God's promise. Bear patiently your
sorrows and the crushing pain inflicted by the unjust bloodshed of your
dear ones and your daily hardship for the sake of God. And say with the
Doyen of the world's martyrs, Hussain ibn Ali, may peace be upon them, who,
when his baby was slain by a poisoned arrow while he held it in his arms,
said: "The only thing that makes it easy to face this is that it takes
place right before God's eyes!" You should know that God has assured the
ultimate victory of the faithful and those who strive patiently, and the
Word of your lord has been fulfilled in truth and justice!(6:115)
Wassalamu alaykum wa rahmatullah.
