First National Conference of the Flagbearers of the Islamic Revolution and ‎Pioneers of the ‎‎Holy Defence ‎to be held in Qom

Rasa – The commander of Imam Sadiq Brigade announced holding of the first National ‎Conference of the Flagbearers of the Islamic Revolution and ‎Pioneers of the Holy Defence ‎with the presence of prominent figures from the Iranian government and Islamic Seminary‎.‎

News ID: 445286

Date: 09 June 2019 - 07:03

RNA – Hujjat al-Islam Ezzatollah Motamed announced the holding of the first National ‎Conference of the Flagbearers of the Islamic Revolution and Pioneers of the Holy Defence ‎with the presence of prominent figures from the Iranian government and Islamic Seminary.‎

He said that the conference will be held on Sunday, June 9 and added that Ayatollah Alireza ‎Arafi, the director of the Islamic Seminaries of Iran, and Major General Sayyed Yahya Rahim ‎Safavi, the former chief commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), will ‎speak at this conference. ‎

Rasa News Agency had a short discussion with Hujjat al-Islam Motamed ‎on the details of the ‎National Conference of the Flagbearers of the Islamic Revolution and the Holy Defence and ‎they are as follows:‎

Describe the circumstances of this conference?‎

The conference will held under the title of “National Conference of the Flagbearers of the ‎Islamic Revolution and Pioneers of the Sacred ‎Defence,” God-willing, on Sunday, June 9th at ‎the al-Ghadir Conference Hall of the Islamic Propagation Office in Qom with the attendance ‎of 650 clerics from Pioneers of the Sacred ‎Defence, who had spent more than a year on the ‎battlefields of the Sacred ‎Defence [Iran-Iraq War], and Ayatollah Arafi, the respected director ‎of the Islamic Seminaries of Iran, and the senior military assistant of the Supreme Leader of ‎the Islamic Revolution, Major General Sayyed Yahya Rahim Safavi.‎

Regarding the importance of this conference, he said that since November 2018, the ‎headquarters of the 83th Imam Ja’far al-Sadiq Brigades, composed of sub-institutions such ‎as the Centre for the Management of the Seminaries, the Deputy of the Graduates of the ‎Seminaries, the Islamic Propagation Office, the Centre for Services of the Islamic Seminary, ‎the Centre for the Publishing of Works and Values of the Holy Defence and other seminary ‎institutions has been established which are the executive organs of the secretariat of this ‎headquarters of four committees, such as the Media and Propagation Committee, the ‎Physical Protection Committee, the Support Committee, and the Invitation and Invitees ‎Committee.‎

What is the purpose of this conference?‎

The conference has several goals of which the most important of them can be outlined ‎below:‎

‎1.‎ To protect the relationship between the clerics of jihad and martyrdom with each ‎other

‎2.‎ To protect ‎and link the pioneering clerics of the Sacred Defence.‎

‎3.‎ To create a reliable and strong spiritual link and the transfer of jihadi culture and ‎martyrdom to the current generations in the Islamic society, especially to the young ‎scholars in the Islamic Seminary. ‎

‎4.‎ To protect and maintain the relationship between the clerics with the “virtuous tree” ‎of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).‎

‎5.‎ To record and transmit the epics, courage and memories of the pioneering clerics of ‎the Sacred Defence.‎

‎6.‎ To explain and outline the role of leading clerics for the Islamic society.‎

‎7.‎ ‎To explain ‎the role of the flagbearers of the Islamic Revolution (the pioneering clerics ‎of the Sacred Defence) in Ayatollah Khamenei’s statement of the Second Phase of the ‎Islamic Revolution and its role in the academic and intellectual fields of the Islamic ‎society and the Islamic system. ‎

In conclusion, he thanked all the seminary institutions that have been working hard to hold ‎this conference.‎
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