Publish Date: 19 September 2022 - 22:30

Supreme Leader to meet Sacred Defense veterans on Wed.

Tehran, IRNA – Supreme Leader of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei will on Wednesday receive a group of commanders and combatants fighting during the Iraqi imposed war in the 1980s as well as families of the martyrs of that conflict.

The meeting will take place in Tehran's Imam Khomeini Husseinieh (religious center) a day ahead of the beginning of the Sacred Defense Week which marks the start of the eight-year Iraqi imposed war against Iran in 1980.

A number of Sacred Defense commanders and veterans in other parts of the country will also take part in the meeting virtually.

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