TEHRAN (Iran News) In a speech in Tehran on Sunday, Ayatollah Khamenei touched on the annual congregation of Hajj, which brings together and unites Muslims from different parts of the world irrespective of their race, color, and culture.

“The Hajj gathering is for the benefit of humanity and there is no benefit for the Islamic Ummah greater than unity,” he told officials and organizers of the Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca, which able Muslims must make at least once in their lifetime.

“If the Islamic Ummah were united, the issues of Palestine and Gaza would not happen and Yemen would not be pressured like this,” the Leader added.

Gaza is the target of a brutal campaign of aggression by Israel which has killed nearly 53,000 people in the besieged Palestinian territory since October 2023 and left it in total ruin.

U.S., UK and Israeli warplanes have been launching deadly attacks against Yemen since March 15, when U.S. President Donald Trump intensified the campaign that was started by the former administration last year to stop the Arab country’s operations against Israel in solidarity with Gazans.

Ayatollah Khamenei highlighted the political aspect which underpins the role of Hajj, saying that “contrary to the efforts, words, and actions of some who tarnish it, the essence of Hajj is political, its form is political, and its composition is political”.

“Hajj perhaps is the only obligation whose outward form and appearance and its composition are 100 percent political,” the Leader said.

“Gathering people in one place, at one time, every year – everyone who can – the very essence of this gathering together is political.”

Far from being an ordinary pilgrimage and a sightseeing trip, the journey for Hajj is “participation in a very important practice that God Almighty has ordained for the management of humanity – not just the management of believers and Muslims, but for the management of humanity”, the Leader said.

“Hajj is for the administration of humanity. The true Hajj is a service to humanity – not just to yourself, your country and the Islamic Ummah; it is a service to humanity,” he added.

In continuation of his remarks, the Leader of the Islamic Revolution described knowledge and understanding of the goals and various dimensions of Hajj as a necessary prelude for pilgrims of the House of God to correctly fulfill this very important obligation. Citing numerous verses from the Holy Qur’an, he added: the repeated use of the word “tas” (people) in many of the verses related to Hajj shows that God has ordained this obligation for the management of the affairs of all people—not just Muslims. Therefore, a properly conducted Hajj is a service to all humanity.

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On Saturday, an official with Iran’s Judiciary Branch reacted to the silence and inactivity of some Arab countries in the face of Zionists’ crimes and violation of human rights in the occupied lands specially Gaza.

Ali Bagheri Kani, Secretary-General of Iran’s Human Rights Office took to Twitter to criticize Zionists’ crimes in the occupied lands specially Gaza. He also reacted to the silence and inactivity of some Arab countries in the face of such inhuman crimes.

Holding an extraordinary summit of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation is the slightest thing that Islamic governments can do for the oppressed Palestinian people, said Bagheri in his tweet.

Today, the Arab states who stabbed Islamic Ummah in the back and extended a hand of friendship to the criminals under the pretext of peace, are responsible for the blood of children and the cries of the Palestinians who are helpless.

Referring to his meeting with the Syrian envoy, he said, “Today, the coalition of resistance is stronger and the Zionist regime is weaker than ever, I told in a meeting with the Syrian envoy.”

Meanwhile the International Conference in Support of the Palestinian Intifada said the so-called advocates of human rights who keep silent on Israel’s brutality against the Palestinian people are complicit in the Tel Aviv regime’s war crimes.

“Unfortunately, silence of the so-called advocates of human rights in the face of the Zionists’ barbaric attacks and massacre of the defenseless Palestinian people, particularly women and children, indicates their complicity in war crimes,” the conference’s secretariat said in a statement.

But these statements are not enough for stopping the Zionists from committing their crimes and they savagely attack Gaza Strip and destroy the infrastructures and kill the innocent civilians.

The Palestinian resistance fighters have been responding to Israel’s aggression through massive barrages of rockets and missiles and they have also brought drones into the equation but it is not enough by itself.

The world community and especially Muslims should come to the rescue of the Palestinian people who are losing their lives by the Israeli air attacks. Any passivity will lead to more crimes in Palestine. Unfortunately world powers have been passive in stopping Israel from such a crime and they just, in their telephone calls with Israeli officials, call for self-restraint while the Zionists are themselves the culprit of the crime and they should be accounted for recent conflict in the region which has led to the loss of at least 150 Palestinians.

Bagheri Kani in his statement and referring to his meeting with the Syrian envoy, said, “Today, the coalition of resistance is stronger and the Zionist regime is weaker than ever, I told in a meeting with the Syrian envoy.”

Referring to the stray Syrian missiles hit near the most sensitive Zionist center (Dimona),  Bagheri Kani said that the Zionists know that if the Resistance uses guided missiles the situation would be worse.

According to Bagheri Kani the only way to stop the Zionists is the language of force and Muslims’ unity and no one can stop the Zionists through dialogue unless the Zionists feel the serious threat of Palestinians and Muslims’ firm reactions.

Muslim states should put aside their fear and passivity and take a practical action for saving the Palestinians and for the liberation of occupied lands from the Zionists’ claws, otherwise these atrocities will never end and Israeli forces can continue their crimes under the world arrogance support whenever they wish.

Now Muslims are seeing the true animal nature of Zionists and will realize how bad and dangerous the normalization of ties with Israel has been for the region.

The Islamic Republic has supported and will continue support for the Palestinian people and their resistance in the face of relentless acts of aggression and crimes by the Zionist enemy in the Holy Quds and the Gaza Strip and other Muslim states should join the Iran’s camp in supporting the Palestinians.

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