RNA – Tehran’s provisional Friday Prayers Leader, Ayatollah Sayyed Ahmad Khatami, stressed that the worldwide Muslim community will by no means allow the world to forget the Israeli atrocities against the Palestinians.
Addressing a large and fervent congregation of the people on Tehran University campus on Friday, Ayatollah Khatami said, “We will not let the Palestinian cause to be sidelined despite the efforts made by Takfiri terrorist groups.”
He, meantime, pointed to the crimes committed by the ISIL Takfiri terrorist group in Syria and Iraq, and said, “The people of the world are well-aware that these Takfiri groups are created by the United States, the European Union and the United Kingdom in support of the Zionist regime.”
Ayatollah Khatami said despite the US-Israeli plots to sideline the Palestinian issue, millions of Iranians renewed their support for the Palestinian nation in today’s rallies marking the International al-Quds Day.
Millions of Iranians took to the streets in all Iranian cities across the country on International al-Quds Day on Friday to voice support for the Palestinian nation against the Israeli regime.
Iranians across the country, including in the capital Tehran, and other people around the world, have held massive anti-Israel rallies on the last Friday of Ramadan in opposition to the continued occupation of the Palestinian land by Israel.
The International al-Quds Day was started by the late Founder of the Islamic Republic, Imam Khomeini, in 1979 as a way of expressing solidarity with the Palestinians and underscoring importance of the holy Quds to Muslims.
International al-Quds Day is an annual event opposing Israel’s occupation of Jerusalem. Anti-Zionist rallies and demonstrations are held on the last Friday of Ramadan in Muslim and Arab countries around the world, and especially in Iran.
In the Iranian capital, Tehran, demonstrators chanted slogans in condemnation of the Zionists’ crimes in the occupied Palestinian lands.
The fasting people carried placards, and chanting “Down with the US” and “Down with Israel.”
Demonstrators also stressed their readiness to defend the Palestinian cause.
They also shouted protest against the silence of the international community and the so-called advocates of human rights in regard to the crimes committed in the Zionist-occupied lands.
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