Rasa – Ayatollah Sa’idi referred to the recent floods in Iran and said, “Fortunately, the people, authorities and flood victims emerged from this divine test with honour and the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution [Ayatollah Khamenei] interpreted it as the power of the mobilization of the Iranian people.” RNA – In his Friday prayer sermon delivered to a large and fervent crowd of believers in Qom’s Qods Prayer Hall, Ayatollah Sayyed Mohammad Sa’idi referred to the recent floods in several provinces of Iran and the loss of a number of fellow citizens and great damage and expressed sympathy with the victims and said, “There are many lessons in these events. The situation is critical in terms of the extensiveness and involvement of the whole country, the astonishment of the people and the officials, as well as the necessity of speed in managing the events.”
The custodian of the Holy Shrine of Lady Fatimah al-Ma’sumah said that in such a critical situation, its necessary to overcome the crisis through charity, rapid action, synergy, prioritization and mobilizing all capacities and facilities, and said, “Fortunately, the people, authorities and flood victims emerged from this divine test with honour and the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution [Ayatollah Khamenei] interpreted it as the power of the mobilization of the Iranian people.”
He added, “Flood compensation, such as house reconstruction, grants and agricultural loans, housing and livestock has been promised by the president [Hasan Rouhani] and the first vice-president [Eshaq Jahangiri] and the government has passed approvals in this regard. The necessary damages are estimated at the price of the day and the payments to the injured will be paid in the near future.”
Ayatollah Sa’idi praised the precise information provided during the management of the crisis by the IRIB, “The people must receive information about the flood and similar critical conditions only from official channels and the national media. It’s natural that the enemies will strive to create rumours, inflame false news, magnify the problems and turn some of the disruptions into insecurity in order to discourage the people and discredit the presence of people on the scene of the defence of the Islamic Revolution, such as their presence on the 22nd of Bahman. For this reason, the people must raise their level of consciousness.”
The representative of the Supreme Leader in Qom stated, “The people and the authorities will be able to overcome the conditions in the best manner, unlike the ‘Great Satan’ [United States] which is still suffering from floods and wildfires in their own country and haven’t done a decent job for their people so far. But despite this, they have engaged in creating defects for others and, contrary to all international rules, they have even extended their cruel sanctions against the flood victims and this oppression against humanity that has been done by these wild animals, such as Donald Trump.”
He thanked the management, instruction and guidance of the Supreme Leader for solving the problems of the flood victims and the sources of emulation for their assistance and the permission to allocate part of the Imam’s share of the khums tax to the flood victims.”
Ayatollah Sa’idi said, “The sources of emulation are the lights of guidance for the people in regard to enjoining good deeds and we hope that the years of drought in the country will turn into years of rain and the Iranian people will benefit more from the divine blessings after the recent events and the exoteric appearance of these tribulations will have a blessed esoteric meaning for the country.”
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