Lahore Friday Prayer Leader:‎

Trump imposes sanctions on Iranian FM and Supreme Leader

Hujjat al-Islam ‎Naqvi ‎said that US President Donald Trump’s imposition of sanctions on ‎Mohammad Javad-Zarif, the Foreign Affairs Minister of Iran, and Ayatollah Khamenei, the ‎‎Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution are “a great mockery‎.”‎

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Date: 06 August 2019 - 08:41

RNA – In his Friday prayer sermon delivered to a large and fervent crowd of believers in ‎‎the‎ ‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎Pakistani city of Lahore, Hujjat al-Islam Sayyed Jawad ‎Naqvi ‎stated that Pakistani Prime ‎Minister Imran Khan has stated that he appreciates and agrees with American President ‎Donald Trump’s plan for peace in Afghanistan and said, “It has been reported that Prime ‎Minister Khan praised Trump’s plan in a formal gathering and accepted that plan. In this ‎peace plan, Trump has said that in order to achieve peace in Afghanistan, the United States ‎needs cooperation from Pakistan. He openly stated in front of the media that for this plan to ‎succeed, ten million people would have to die in both Afghanistan and Pakistan. This is his ‎vision for peace and his actual plan. He said that he doesn’t want to implement this plan but ‎desires that Pakistan cooperate in order to establish peace in Afghanistan.”‎

The principal of Jami’at Urwat ‎‎al-Wuthqa Islamic ‎Seminary in Lahore referred to the volatile ‎situation in Afghanistan, saying, “There are many factions in Afghanistan – there are the ‎Taliban and the secularists and there are also various ethnic groups such as the Pashtuns, ‎Tajiks, Hazaras and Uzbeks and they are all like fire and water to each other. It’s impossible ‎to establish peace with foreign intervention. There is only one way they can establish peace ‎that is to leave them on their own, then only either by fighting or by negotiations they will ‎resolve their internal issues and they may divide Afghanistan amongst themselves to ‎establish peace. Peace can’t be established in Afghanistan through Trump’s peace plan and ‎instead, Afghanistan will be used as a depot to create insecurity in Pakistan, China, Iran and ‎other places.”‎

Hujjat al-Islam ‎Naqvi ‎continued, saying, “This is the reason that the United States has pulled ‎out all their Daesh forces from Syria and Iraq, they have moved the Mojahedin-e Khalq ‎Organization (MKO), the group that they have supported against Iran, to Afghanistan. ‎Trump’s plan isn’t to create peace but to create insecurity and violence in other countries. He ‎only wants Pakistan to act as a mediator with the Taliban for him. If Trump really wants ‎peace, then it’s only in one place – namely Israel – where he wants peace. Trump never ‎wants to see Pakistan, the Arab nations or Iran in peace. In regard to Yemen, the United ‎States Congress has put restrictions on American arms factories to supply weapons to Saudi ‎Arabia but Trump vetoed it. This is Trump’s practical plan which is currently operational.”‎

The Pakistani scholar ‎referred to the United States’ imposition of sanctions on Mohammad ‎Javad-Zarif, the Foreign Affairs Minister of Iran, and Ayatollah Khamenei, the Supreme ‎Leader of the Islamic Revolution, said, “Tensions between the United States and Iran are ‎increasing and Trump has taken steps which are a great mockery. This is the peace plan of ‎Trump. Mr. Zarif’s bank accounts will be frozen and if any other country establishes a ‎relationship with him, the United States will put restrictions on those countries as well. A ‎greater mockery than this is that two weeks before these restrictions were imposed on Mr. ‎Zarif, Trump imposed sanctions on the Supreme Leader. This means, theoretically, that the ‎Supreme Leader won’t be able to obtain a visa to go to the United States, his assets in the ‎United States are frozen and anyone who does business with the Supreme Leader will also ‎come under restrictions. You can see how mentally paralyzed Trump is and he is running the ‎global system!” ‎

Referring to the current events in in Kashmir, His Eminence said, “India has announced that ‎its deploying another 10,000 armed forces to Kashmir and there are already more than ‎‎100,000 forces present there. They are deploying more forces because India has realized ‎that they need to act like Israel to resolve the issue of Kashmir in the way that Israel has ‎handled Palestine. Kashmir is the only state which has a special status. For example, a non-‎Kashmiri [someone living in another Indian state] can’t buy property in Kashmir.”‎

Hujjat al-Islam ‎Naqvi ‎added, “Since Narendra Modi became the Prime Minister of India, he ‎has wanted to suspend Kashmir’s special status and he can do this through the Assembly ‎and the Supreme Court. He can challenge this law in the Assembly since his Bharatiya Janata ‎Party has a majority and the Supreme Court ‎has also given many rulings in Modi’s favour ‎previously. If this law is suspended then the land of Kashmir will become open to all and ‎Kashmiri’s will then have to wash their hands of Kashmir. Capitalists from India, non-resident ‎Indians and even foreigners would be ready to buy land in Kashmir at expensive rates. The ‎importance of this land is very high, because of the natural beauty and bounties that God ‎has created there for which people will pay a heavy price.”‎

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