Ayatollah Sa’idi stated that the Islamic Resistance is moving forward and emphasized, “Everything that the Islamic Republic of Iran has achieved so far is due to the blessing of the Islamic Resistance and will continue.” RNA – In his Friday prayer sermon delivered to a large and fervent crowd of believers at Qom’s Qods Prayer Hall, Ayatollah Sayyed Mohammad Sa’idi referred to the Hajj pilgrimage, which begins on August 9th, and said, “We pray to God for all those who are on the Hajj pilgrimage to have the grace to perform the correct and acceptable rituals of the Hajj and we hope that they will return home with an acceptable Hajj.”
The custodian of the Holy Shrine of Lady Fatimah al-Ma’sumah commemorated the Resistance Day, which celebrates Hezbollah’s defeat of the Israeli regime the 33-Day War in 2006 and said, “On this day, Hezbollah defeated the Zionists in the 33-Day War through the grace of God and the special favour of Lady Fatimah al-Zahra and pushed them back.”
He noted the importance of resistance in Islam, adding, “Resistance in the Holy Quran is more than a word or a term and resistance isn’t limited to a dream on the battlefield but rather it includes any kind of struggle against those elements which disturb balance and equilibrium.”
Ayatollah Sa’idi continued, “From the beginning until now, the Islamic Revolution and the religious system arising from it, has moved forward with divine dignity and power and with its young and elite manpower, they have overcome the acts of sedition, conspiracies and evil plans of the global arrogant front and their mercenary and internal agents.”
The representative of the Supreme Leader in Qom stated, “Although the pressure, hostility and conspiracies against the Islamic Revolution have intensified, the strength and development of the Islamic Republic has increased in various arenas. The Americans assumed, within the framework of the JCPOA nuclear deal and through negotiating, that they can put the Islamic Republic on the path of surrender, compromise and the renunciation of resistance, but the vigilance of the wise Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution eroded the evil plans of the Americans and their allies.”
He said, “After that, the Americans drew up another plan, and with their departure from the JCPOA, they embarked on a strategy of intensifying sanctions and crises in Iran to overthrow the Islamic Republic. At this time, the division of work was done between the United States and several European countries in order that with the withdrawal of the United States from the JPCOA, the Europeans could enter the scene and by imposing pressures and pushing Iran to the negotiating table, they could gain greater concessions on scarce economic aid.”
Ayatollah Sa’idi continued, saying, “At the same time, the United States insisted on negotiating with Iran but the Supreme Leader considered negotiating with the United States as poison and announced negotiating with the United States as strictly prohibited. It was here that the United States lost hope in negotiating with Iran. They acted foolishly by sanctioning Mohammad-Javad Zarif, the Foreign Affairs Minister of Iran, because Americans assumed that Mr. Zarif’s importance was due to his presence in the negotiations and when there were no negotiations, his position wasn’t required.”
He added, “With the experience gained from negotiating with the deceitful United States, we hope that the diplomatic apparatus of the Islamic Republic of Iran won’t be content to negotiate with the cunning Europeans because the Europeans have admitted themselves that they are united in opinion with the United States in dealing with the Islamic Republic of Iran. Everything we have achieved is in the light of resistance and we will continue this path to the end, with the grace of God.”
Rasa News Agency
112/976