Tehran Friday Prayer Leader:

Military progress, Iran’s inalienable right

Rasa – Tehran’s temporary Friday prayer leader, Ayatollah Movahedi-Kermani underscored that Tehran absolutely has the right to boost its defense capabilities and military power.

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Date: 02 September 2016 - 16:23

RNA – In the contemporary world that the arrogant powers have no compunction about committing crimes, it is the Islamic Republic’s inalienable right to enhance its defensive and offensive capabilities, Ayatollah Mohammad-Ali Movahedi-Kermani said in an address to a large gathering of Friday prayer worshippers in Tehran.

He stressed that domestic production of various types of military equipment, including missiles, radars, drones and air defense systems, indicate the might of the Armed Forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

The cleric’s comments came after Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Sayyed Ali Khamenei’s emphasis on the need for strengthening the country’s military power.

Addressing Iranian Defense Ministry’s officials and experts during a visit to an exhibition of the ministry’s achievements in Tehran on Wednesday, Ayatollah Khamenei said Iran has “an inalienable and absolute right” to reinforce its defensive and offensive power.

In a world where bullying and domineering powers, who lack morality, conscience and humanity and have no qualms about invading countries and killing innocent people, are dominant, developing defensive and offensive industries is quite natural because security will not be achieved unless these powers feel the country’s might, the Leader reiterated.

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