RNA - “Outgrowth of the Islamic Revolution is seen across the country,” Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei said in the November 5 meeting with officials in charge of holding the congress of martyrs of Eastern Iranian province of South Khorasan.
The Leader’s remarks were read out at the congress held in South Khorasan Provincial Capital of Birjand on Tuesday.
Ayatollah Khamenei said, there is a serious attack on the spiritual issues by the enemies.
Yet such attacks will also go nowhere, he stressed.
Referring to the martyrs of the 8-year war imposed by former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussain on Iran in 1980-88, the Leader said that the Sacred Defense tends to have no limits and it is a progressing reality.
Earlier on November 03, Ayatollah Khamenei underlined that the Iranian nation will certainly be able to defeat the US sanctions.
He made the remarks, addressing 100,000 Basiji (volunteer) forces and senior military officials at Azadi Stadium in Tehran on Thursday.
“After vast explorations, the enemy has arrived at sanctions to counter the Islamic Republic. It has no other option but waging economic sanctions as it is facing a deadend in every other corner,” he said, stressing, however, that “economic sanctions are more fragile than our national economy”.
“Our national economy can beat the sanctions. The failure of the sanctions would mean (ultimate) defeat for America, and the US should once again be slapped in the face by the Iranian nation, God willing, with this defeat,” Ayatollah Khamenei underlined.
“The enemy intends to push the Iranian nation into this conclusion that the country has come to a deadend and has no other option, but to kneel and give into the US,” he said, adding that those promoting such a viewpoint at home are traitors to the country.
Ayatollah Khamenei, however, assured that he “will not allow that to happen in the country” with the help of the nation.
The Leader further said the Iranian nation has been blessed with “invincibility,” which is rooted in its 1979 Islamic Revolution, its eight-year Holy Defense of the country against the ex-Iraqi regime’s war in the following years, and in general, its steadfast resistance over the past 40 years in the face of all enemy plots.
“The grandeur and authority of the Islamic Republic and its invincibility are not empty talk or mere slogans. It is a fact that the enemies seek to keep us ignorant of,” Ayatollah Khamenei emphasized.
He said US President Donald Trump had recently told some European leaders that Iran’s Islamic establishment would be toppled in 2-3 months, adding that such comments are nothing new.
However, almost 40 years into the Revolution, the Islamic Republic has only grown more powerful, the Leader said. “The enemy of the Iranian nation has failed to gain an understanding of the Revolution and the revolutionary spirit; this wrong analysis has misled it (the enemy) in the course of these years,” he said.
The US’ enmity towards the Iranian nation is not merely due to “Death to America” chants, Ayatollah Khamenei said. “They (the Americans) are afraid of Islamic power and the Revolution’s might.”
Ayatollah Khamenei further advised that “both youths and authorities should convey a message of power to the enemy not a message of weakness”.
The enemy, the Leader said, will retreat if it faces national unity, strength and firm determination, and if domestic rifts are set aside.
According to Fars News Agancy, US President Donald Trump announced on May 8 that Washington would no longer remain part of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) and promised to re-impose the highest level of economic sanctions against Iran.
The sanctions reinstated on Iran on May 8 included boycott of Iran's crude supplies and bans on transfer of its crude revenues. There is a 180 days interval before these sanctions come into effect.
Iranian First Vice-President Eshaq Jahangiri said on Wednesday that despite the pressures and sanctions imposed by the US to prevent the country's oil exports, Tehran would continue its crude sales.
"Despite all pressures by the Americans, Iran has its own customers and everything is moving ahead without any problem," Iranian Legislator Behrouz Nemati quoted Jahangiri as saying in a closed-door session with the parliamentarians in Tehran.
According to Nemati, the Iranian first vice-president also said that the country had exported over $26bln worth of non-oil products in the past 6 months.
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