"Enemies" are triggering unrest in Iran to overthrow the Islamic Republic, Khamenei says, Reuters reported.
“Today, the enemies’ most important hope for striking a blow at the country is based on popular protests, Khamenei said”
“But the enemies’ calculation is as wrong as many earlier ones," he said in a televised speech on the 33rd anniversary of the death of the leader of Iran's 1979 Islamic revolution, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.”
Also, he said, enemies were waging a “psychological war” against Iran by accusing it of piracy for seizing two Greek ships after the United States confiscated Iranian oil from a tanker, it added.
“Iran fury boils over: Supreme Leader warns 'enemies' want to overthrow the Islamic Republic”, UK Express News Paper reported.
Iran’s supreme leader said his country’s seizure of two Greek oil tankers in Persian Gulf waters last month was a direct response to the US and Greece’s “robbery” of Iranian crude, Bloomberg noted.
Ayatollah Khamenei delivered a speech on the 33rd anniversary of the Imam Khomeini’s demise, which began at the Imam mausoleum on the 14th day of Khordad, the third month of the Iranian calendar year, on Saturday.
As Ayatollah Khamenei stressed, the nature of the Islamic Republic is against oppression.
The Supreme Leader went on to say that the enemy has counted on public protests to put people against the Islamic Republic, and surely the enemy’s forecast is wrong like its many other ones.
That they think they can cause confrontation between people and the Islamic Republic is wrong because the Islamic Republic attaches great importance to people, the Leader noted.
The following are some of the main points he stated in this speech:
Imam Khomeini wasn’t the Imam of just yesterday. He is the Imam of today and tomorrow too. The young generation that is to carry the national, revolutionary responsibility of the Revolution needs a sure, comprehensive, accelerating, transformative software and that is Imam’s lessons.
Imam Khomeini was the leader of the greatest revolution in the history of revolutions. Why the greatest? Because the most famous revolutions were those of France and the Soviet Union, which quickly deviated, people no longer played any role in them and their revolutions collapsed.
Imam Khomeini’s emphasizing the people’s vote so strongly came from his understanding of Islam. Thus, Imam Khomeini separated the Islamic Republic from the two prevalent systems of those days: capital-oriented liberal democracy and dictatorial communist regimes.
The West plundered the world for three centuries, wreaked havoc, committed murders, massacres, tortures, looted, brought slavery, pressure, etc., while their intellectuals were composing human rights laws for the world! This is the masterpiece created by western civilization.
The American continent had owners, civilizations, and nations. Using various kinds of deception, which are all precisely recorded in history, the west wreaked havoc there: murdering, plundering, massacring, torturing, bringing pressure, and slavery. These are what the West did.
A major benefit brought by Imam Khomeini was his familiarizing the people with the concept of resistance. Today, resistance is a prominent term in the political literature of the world.
They stole Iran’s oil on the coast of Greece, then brave Iranians retaliated and confiscated the enemy’s oil tankers. But in the mainstream media’s propaganda, Iran is accused of theft. Who’s the thief? You who stole our oil or us who took it back?
The late Imam Khomeini- Founder of the Islamic Republic and Father of the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran- passed away 33 years ago at the age of 86.
Imam Khomeini, who steered the popular uprising in Iran culminating in the fall of the former regime of Shah, passed away on June 3, 1989.
He is known as one of the most influential leaders who inspired many other revolutions all across the world.
Compiled and translated by Amin Mohammadzadegan Khoyi
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