Ayatollah Khatami at Feyziyeh Seminary‎:‎

The popularity of the IRGC has increased the authority of this powerful arm of the ummah

Rasa – The member of the Supreme Council of the Islamic Seminary‎ referred to the ‎designation of the IRGC as a terrorist organization by the United States and said, “The ‎popularity of the IRGC has increased the authority of this powerful arm of the ummah ‎and ‎the consultations of President Trump put the United States on a steep slope.”‎

News ID: 444250

Date: 11 April 2019 - 13:59

RNA – Speaking at a large gathering of members of the seminarians at Qom’s Feyziyeh ‎Seminary, Ayatollah Sayyed Ahmad Khatami, a member of the Supreme Council of the ‎Islamic Seminary, condemned the designation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps ‎‎(IRGC) as a terrorist organization by the President of the United States, Donald Trump, and ‎said, “Peace and greeting of God be upon you who are present at any position which is ‎indictive of the revolutionary Islamic seminaries.” ‎

The temporary Friday prayer leader of Tehran said that the presence of the scholars, ‎teachers and seminarians have gathered together in the epicentre and birthplace of the ‎Islamic Revolution is very valuable and added, “This gathering expresses hatred of the evil ‎dance of the arrogant powers.”‎

He referred to the demands of the revolutionary seminaries and stated, “These revolutionary ‎seminaries are active in the context of the events of the Revolution and have been good in ‎assisting the flood victims and providing relief for the people.”‎
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In regard to the United States’ designation of the IRGC as a terrorist organization, Ayatollah ‎Khatami said, “We are all gathered to shout that we are all Islamic Revolutionary Guards‎.”‎

His Eminence argued that this designation is due to the fact that the United States seeks to ‎expose the Islamic system and noted, “The American government isn’t only a terrorist but ‎rather it is a nurturer of terrorists.”‎

He said that the gathering of scholars of religion explicitly stated that the American military is ‎a full-fledged terrorist army, pointing out, “The statements by American leaders about ‎atomic bombs, human rights and terrorism is nothing more than an overstatement and the ‎Islamism of the Islamic Revolution has been targeted.”‎
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Ayatollah Khatami ‎emphasized that the IRGC has always protected Islam with their lives and ‎hearts and we are standing by our pure Islam until the last drop of our blood and said, “By ‎the grace of God Almighty, the popularity of the IRGC has increased the authority of this ‎powerful arm of the ummah and the consultations of President Trump put the United States ‎on a steep slope.”‎

His Eminence stated that the designation of the IRGC as a terrorist organization was a ‎request from Saudi Arabia and stated, “With the prediction of the Supreme Leader in his first ‎speech this year, God-willing, it won’t be long before the rule of the House of Saud will fall.”‎

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