Ayatollah Ahmad Beheshti condemns Zionism and the ‘Islamic State’

Rasa - Ayatollah Ahmad Beheshti, the representative of Fars province in the Assembly of Experts, has spoken with Rasa News Agency. He discussed the strategy for arming the people of the West Bank in order to protect the greatness of Islam and to prevent the shaming of the Islamic community in the face of the aggressors and the oppressive Zionist regime.

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Date: 12 August 2014 - 18:45

Rasa News Agency reports – Ayatollah Ahmad Beheshti, the representative of Fars province in the Assembly of Experts, has spoken with Rasa News Agency. He discussed the strategy for arming the people of the West Bank in order to protect the greatness of Islam and to prevent the shaming of the Islamic community in the face of the aggressors and the oppressive Zionist regime.

He proposed that Islamic countries should send weapons and humanitarian aid to Palestine to aid the oppressed people there so they are able to continue their resistance against Israel. He echoed the remarks made by Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Sayyed Ali Khamenei, and said: “There is no way except arming the Muslims in order to overcome the Zionists.”

In remarks during meeting university students in Tehran in July, Ayatollah Khamenei proposed sending arms to the Palestinians so that they can continue their armed resistance against the Zionist entity and expand it to the West Bank. Ayatollah Khamenei said armed resistance was “the only way” to confront the Zionist regime with the goal of annihilating it.

Ayatollah Beheshti continued by stating: “We cannot compromise with the enemy with resolutions, compliments and smiles, because they only want to be deceive Muslims with their promises and to scare them with their threats. In the face of their tricks, there is no other way except resistance.”

His Eminence explained that the Quran states that the success of Muslims causes the unbelievers to become disheartened, and he recited this following verse: “If good befalls you, it grieves them, and if an evil afflicts you, they rejoice at it; and if you are patient and guard yourselves, their scheme will not injure you in any way; surely God comprehends what they do.” [3:120]

He then added: “Patience and piety are a form of resistance. Besides resistance, there has been and never will be any other way to counter the enemies.”

Ayatollah Beheshti explained that terrorist groups, such as the so-called Islamic State (IS), are the agents of the Zionists. The Zionists created them in order to disarm the Islamic Resistance. “The Islamic world must confront these divisive groups and unbound extremists with rationality and they must protect Muslim unity.”

“The Islamic world must separate itself with rationality and also protect their unity against the Islamic State terrorist group and other Takfiri groups. These people use various cunning methods and tricks to deceive and mislead the gullible youth. They have murdered young men with their deviated and unprecedented ways and capture women and young girls in a innovation that they call ‘jihad an-nikah’ or ‘sex jihad,’” His Eminence concluded.

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