Imam Khomeini Imam of Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow: Leader
Addressing a ceremony held Saturday at the mausoleum of Imam Khomeini to mark the 33rd anniversary of the passing of the founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ayatollah Khamenei added, “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,” the Leader said.
“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,” he added.
“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 pressures, and slavery. These are what the West did,” Ayatollah Khamenei underlined.
Elsewhere in his remarks, the Leader said the enemies are seeking to pit the Iranian people against their government and the Islamic establishment but all to no avail.
Ayatollah Khamenei said Western countries mainly pin their hopes on the popular protests in order to overthrow the Islamic Republic.
“By launching psychological warfare, recruiting mercenaries, and staging media campaigns against Iran, they attempt to set people against the Islamic establishment,” he said.
However, the Leader noted the enemy is making miscalculations as they did before by erroneously believing that they can cause public dissent in the country.
He said they make such mistakes as they get "wrong advice" from “Iranian traitors” who say: "Count on the Iranian people to rise up against the Islamic establishment."
Ayatollah Khamenei said the Iranians’ interest in the Islamic Revolution and the Islamic establishment is growing day by day, citing the funeral procession held for Iran’s top anti-terror commander Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani.
Source: Khamenei.ir
