Ayatollah Mohsen Faqihi:

Those who remained silent over sedition of 2009 are not innocent

Rasa – A member of the Society of Seminary Teachers of Qom said those who are were silent in the face of the sedition of 2009 are not innocent and that those few people who had social and political positions should have confronted the sedition but instead, remained silent.

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Date: 29 December 2015 - 19:01

RNA – In an interview with Rasa News Agency, Ayatollah Mohsen Faqihi, a member of the Society of Seminary Teachers of Qom, stressed on the need to commemorate the 9th of Dey epic, which celebrates the end of the 2009 post-election sedition, and said that if there is a issue in society that will lead to sedition, it must be managed.

He added that management of those involved in seditious moves should be done in a way that is least costly and most effective as a harsh and hurried confrontation won’t lead to the desired results and the most appropriate way to eradicate sedition is to make use of the popular movements so the people can express their demands and fulfill them through the means of peaceful protests.

The member of the Society of Seminary Teachers of Qom said that the 9th of Dey epic was a popular movement to suppress and extinguish the sedition which occurred throughout 2009, adding that the people spontaneously and through their own will extinguished and condemned this sedition.

He added that on the 9th of Dey, the people loudly announced that as long as the blood flows in their veins, the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Sayyed Ali Khamenei, is their leader.

Ayatollah Faqihi said that the sedition of 2009 cannot be called a misunderstanding or the result of a dispute over the elections of June 2009 as all Iranians people witnessed the events of 2009 which led to street riots in which some people were killed and many places were set on fire. “This is called sedition,” he said.

His Eminence said that if someone says that events of 2009 were not sedition, they are incorrect. He said in that in 2009, sedition occurred and that everyone had a duty to fight it, but unfortunately, some did not fulfill their duties but rather, they supported the seditionists and are to blame.

The Iranian scholar said those who are were silent in the face the sedition are not innocent and those people who had social and political positions should have confronted the sedition but instead, remained silent. “Those who have the concerns of society in mind must prove with their tongue and pens that sedition is not in the best interests of the country,” he said.

Ayatollah Faqihi said that those individuals who remained silent must make up for their shortcomings and not allow anyone to disrupt the tranquility of the country under various pretexts, adding that there were been no violations of the right to vote and that if there was any assumption that the right to vote was violated, it would have been handled through the court system and through legal means.

“Those who say that their rights were violated and so they must overthrow the government are being completely unreasonable,” he said.

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