Qom Friday Prayer Leader:‎

Iranian officials must not overlook the capacity of country’s neighbours

Rasa – Ayatollah Hoseyni-Bushehri ‎emphasized the importance of strengthening the country’s ‎relations with its neighbours and said, “We cannot look at Europe and the West and ignore ‎our neighbours.”‎

News ID: 443921

Date: 16 March 2019 - 08:31

RNA – In his Friday prayer sermon to a large and fervent crowd of believers in Qom’s Quds ‎‎‎Prayer Hall, Ayatollah Seyyed Hashem Hoseyni-Bushehri referred to the final days of the ‎Iranian year of 1397 and the beginning of the new year, he said, “We have put all of the ups ‎and downs of the past year behind us, in regard to which the resistance of the Iranian ‎people against all of the superpowers and enemies is commendable.”‎

The member of the board of directors of the Assembly of Experts‎ referred to the difficult ‎economic problems faced by the Iranian people added, “The enemies think that if the ‎bottlenecks increase, people will abandon other individuals in society but the people are ‎seeking the needy in the most difficult conditions and they will not allow the poor to feel ‎hardship.”‎

Referring to the Statement of the Second Phase of the Islamic Revolution by the Supreme ‎Leader of the Islamic Revolution [Ayatollah Khamenei] added, “This statement is a charter of ‎the movement of the Islamic Revolution, which must be the basis of planning. The ‎Statement of the Second Phase of the Islamic Revolution represents the loyal experience of ‎the Supreme Leader and an innovative and creative explanation of the past, present and ‎future of the Islamic Revolution and set key priorities in seven articles and young people are ‎pivotal to this.”‎
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Ayatollah Hoseyni-Bushehri said, “The message of the statement to friends is that the ‎fortieth anniversary of the Islamic Revolution is due to their persistence on the scene of the ‎Islamic Revolution ‎and we must continue to be stable and wherever we have been ‎victorious, divine assistance has been involved.”‎

The secretary of the Supreme Council of the Islamic Seminary ‎referred to the appointment ‎of Ayatollah Sayyed Ebrahim Raeisi as the Chief Justice of Iran and commended Ayatollah ‎Sadeq Amoli-Larijani’s services and added, “We hope that Ayatollah Raeisi will be successful ‎in his responsibility. Youthfulness, popularity, revolutionaryness, anti-corruption and the ‎resolution of cases of justice are issues that need to be carefully addressed.”‎
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Referring to the visit of Iranian president Hassan Rouhani to Iraq, he said that the visit was ‎slightly delayed but the world saw how a representative of the Islamic Republic is welcomed ‎when he goes to Iraq but when the president of the United States wants to go to Iraq, he ‎goes at night and without any noise and says we have spent a lot of dollars, but we’re ‎forced to go during the night.”‎
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Ayatollah Hoseyni-Bushehri ‎added, “The President of the Islamic Republic of Iran was warmly ‎welcomed by the Iraqi authorities in broad daylight and excellent economic exchanges were ‎planned at a level of $20 billion. The message to Iraq is to strengthen relations with our ‎neighbours so that there isn’t any effect despite the critical situation and the problem of the ‎sanctions. Iran has 15 neighbour countries and we cannot focus our attention on Europe and ‎the West and ignore our neighbours.”‎

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