Qom Friday Prayer Leader:‎

Officials must not heed empty promises of European powers

Ayatollah Sa’idi said that the United States and Europe have never given up on their ‎arrogance towards Iran and stressed, “Iranian officials must never ignore the empty ‎promises of the arrogant powers.” ‎

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Date: 27 September 2019 - 20:50

RNA – In his Friday prayer sermon delivered to a large and fervent crowd of believers at ‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎Qom’s Qods Prayer Hall, Ayatollah Sayyed Mohammad Sa’idi referred to President Hasan ‎Rouhani’s visit to the 74th session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York and ‎his meetings with the heads of state of various countries and said, “Three European leaders ‎met with President Rouhani in New York and tried to provide an opportunity for him to meet ‎with [the President of the United States Donald] Trump, but President Rouhani refused them‏ ‏and in his speech at the United Nations, he delivered a message from the position of ‎authority to the American government.”‎

The custodian of the Holy Shrine of Lady Fatimah al-Ma’sumah added, “These three ‎European countries, especially the United Kingdom, have historically viewed Iran as prey and ‎have never abandoned colonialism and arrogance towards Iran. In World War I, Iran ‎suffered the most from this despite declaring its neutrality. Nearly half of the country’s ‎population fell victim to the colonialist powers and died of starvation in this devastating war. ‎The massacre of nearly ten million people is still classified and is a secret in the United ‎Kingdom and they still refuse to release the evidence of this crime.”‎

Ayatollah Sa’idi said, “During the Imposed War [Iran-Iraq War], these European countries ‎didn’t refrain from offering any assistance to Saddam Husayn. Saddam wasn’t‏ ‏just a number ‎who came to war with Iran. The United States, various European countries and the ‎reactionary countries of the region, along with the unquestioning support of Saddam, inflicted ‎great damage on the people and the Islamic country of Iran.”‎

The representative of the Supreme Leader in ‎Qom stated, “Now that these European ‎countries are trying to play a mediating role between Iran and the United States and with all ‎the desperate efforts to re-elect Trump in the United States, the Supreme Leader of the ‎Islamic Revolution [Ayatollah Khamenei] decisively stated at the beginning of his dars al-‎kharij class on jurisprudence that no negotiations will take place on any level between Iran ‎and the United States.”‎

He said, “The Supreme Leader warned that everyone must know and pay attention to the ‎fact that the Americans’ objective in raising the issue of negotiating with Iran again is a trick. ‎The Supreme Leader also spoke about the Europeans during a recent meeting of the ‎Assembly of Experts and said that the Europeans can’t be trusted at all because they have ‎adhered to the oppressive American sanctions.”‎
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Ayatollah Sa’idi stressed, “We, the people, while appreciating the zealous positions of some ‎officials, urge them never to ignore the empty promises and the bullying conditions of the ‎arrogant powers and to obey the orders of the Supreme Leader in all spheres.”‎

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