RNA – In an exclusive interview with Rasa News Agency, Hujjat al-Islam Mohammad-Baqer Farzaneh, the secretary of the Supreme Council of the Islamic Seminaries of Khorasan, referred to the increased gasoline prices and the recent riots in Iran and the remarks made by the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution [Ayatollah Sayyed Ali Khamenei] and said, “These events are considerable for today and for the future. They demonstrate how powerful Imamate is in Islam.”
The interim Friday prayer leader of Mashhad said, “We have passed through various events that have been just a strange turning point in history and the only power that has been able to deliver this ship to safety from this enormous wave has been Imamate. No institution, organization or power can have his position and therefore Imamate is emphasized by Islam.”
He said, “Recent events have demonstrated us that the enemies, as a power that is at war with us, are always awake and don’t hesitate to recognize opportunities to engage in conspiracy against us. The enemies are awake from moment to moment, watching over the Islamic ummah, and continually increases its preparedness, depending on the circumstances, both inside and outside the country.”
Hujjat al-Islam Farzaneh said, “In regard to the recent riots, it’s significant that the type of destruction of the enemies that was different from the past. Nothing mattered to them, if they were successful in doing this, they would have destroyed the whole country and this wouldn’t be limited to banks, mosques and shops, they would destroy all of our huge facilities and would not hesitate to kill people to achieve their goal.”
His Eminence added, “These enemies are special enemies who want to destroy everything to get what they want, which demonstrates their anger because in front of him there is an Ummah which is a serious threat to these enemies.”
He stated, “The enemies entered the scene very viciously. Previously, nothing to this extent existed where there was so much destruction in such a limited period of time. These events demonstrate to us that the enemies can be defeated at any level of preparedness, planning and power, as we have seen in the past from the [Iran-Iraq] war until now.”
Hujjat al-Islam Farzaneh emphasized, “We now saw that the enemies had a strange plan for this stage. They did a lot of planning – including planning and training their forces, organizing and feeding them and planning behind the scenes to strengthen and support them abroad to support at a very high level.”
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