TEHRAN (Iran News) – Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says creating despair in Iran is among the main policies of the country’s enemies.
The Leader made the remarks in a meeting with the chairman and members of the Assembly of Experts in Tehran on Thursday.
Ayatollah Khamenei said some enmities toward the Islamic Republic are “political enmity,” adding, “For example, the Islamic Republic pursues a stance on the Palestinian issue and [world] powers have another position. [This] creates enmity.”
“These are not very important. The one that is more important is intrinsic enmity. The nature of the Islamic Republic creates this enmity,” the Leader added.
The Islamic establishment “opposes those who believe in the Western prescription, which is against any kind of religious interference in social affairs, or opposes the leaders of liberal democracy, who have hatched a plot to dominate over and plunder the world’s resources behind the false flag of freedom and democracy,” he said.
The Islamic Republic, according to the Leader, has disrupted such a plot by putting “democracy and freedom” next to “religion”.
The Leader warned that some Western countries use liberal democracy to dominate the world, emphasizing, however, that the Islamic Republic brings democracy and freedom along with religion.
Ayatollah Khamenei stated that a democracy based on religion leads to hostility because it foils the enemies’ conspiracies.
The Leader highlighted the remarkable popular power of the Islamic establishment which he said is “unique or rare in the world.”
Ayatollah Khamenei described the Iranian people’s huge turnout in the rallies to mark the 44th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution earlier this month as another sign of the nation’s support for the Islamic establishment.
The Leader added that the strong popular support for the Islamic establishment is a national asset, urging all to work tirelessly to preserve and increase it.
Meanwhile later Ayatollah Khamenei urged Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) to double its efforts to strengthen its military and moral power with the goal of protecting the ideals of the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
Ayatollah Khamenei sent a message to a gathering of the IRGC commanders and military officials, which was read out by IRGC Commander Brigadier General Hossein Salami as the session opened on Thursday.
“The convening of the meeting, which is aimed at outlining the horizons of the IRGC and the Basij Force’s movement toward a bright future for the Islamic Revolution, is a source of joy and will, God willing, bring blessings,” the message read.
The IRGC, the Leader said, “is expected to attract, train and educate the talented youth at a level that befits the Islamic Revolution, enable the IRGC to achieve all capabilities [required] to fortify the Revolution, and bolster its own spiritual, revolutionary and military power.”
The call comes weeks after a contentious decision by the European Parliament for the European Union to blacklist the IRGC, an official division of Iran’s Armed Forces.
The European Union, however, has not acted on the decision, which is widely viewed as a symbolic move, arguing that the bloc lacks the necessary legal basis for such designation.
