Hujjat al-Islam Mohammadi-Laeini said that racial discrimination in the West and the United States has been systematic and institutionalized and added, “The shout of ‘down with America’ has also been heard throughout the Western world.” RNA – In his first Friday prayer sermon since COVID-19 (Coronavirus) entered Iran, Hujjat al-Islam Mohammad-Baqer Mohammadi-Laeini, the representative of the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution in Mazandaran province, said, “If we want to continue the path of the martyrs, the late Imam [Khomeyni] and the Islamic Resistance, God must be with us and if we want God to be with us, we must be pious, as God Himself has said, ‘I am with those who are pious.’”
The Friday prayer leader of Sari referred to the important message of the Supreme Leader [Ayatollah Khamenei] on the occasion of the inauguration of the 11th Islamic Consultative Assembly and said, “The executive branch, the judiciary, as well as other officials in various parts of the country must work to fulfill the slogan of the year [‘Leap in Production’].”
Hujjat al-Islam Mohammadi-Laeini also mentioned the holding of many meetings via video conferencing software due to the outbreak of the Coronavirus and said, “The Coronavirus has created an opportunity for us to move towards e-government and this important issue should be taken into consideration.”
His Eminence referred to the protests in the United States that erupted after the killing of George Floyd, an African-American man, on May 25 and said that in some countries, in addition to the Coronavirus, another disaster, namely racial discrimination, has led to the deaths of many people and emphasized, “They dealt ruthlessly with African-Americans and people of colour and there has been a wave of protests against such inhumane practices in all Western countries and the United States.”
He stated that racial discrimination in the West and the United States has become systematic and institutionalized and explained, “Today, the wave of popular protests in the Western world against imperialism and the Western regime is louder than in any other country in the world.”
Hujjat al-Islam Mohammadi-Laeini said that the American people are repeating the slogan of ‘down with America’ against their own system today and stated, “The enemies wanted to extinguish the axis of the slogan of ‘death to America’ which is Islamic Iran but not only wasn’t it silenced but rather ‘death to America’ was also heard throughout the Western world and here ‘death to America’ is shouted louder than ever.”
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