Imam Sayyed Ali Khamenei’s speech at UN General Assembly, 22/09/1987

God’s prophets taught humanity to make his arms stronger in order to be able to safeguard virtue, rectitude, kindness, innovation, science and knowledge while keep the path closed to the agents of evil, degeneracy, and corruption; fight ignorance and cruelty while protect knowledge, justice, and freedom. Mankind was taught neither to oppress, nor to compromise oppression. Islam rejected and repudiated those systems that upheld coercion, bullying, fostered despotism, ignorance, humiliated the mankind, discriminated against races, languages, nations; it fiercely resists any states or individuals who might fight against the Islamic system; in other cases, Islam commands to act out of kindness and respect toward its followers as well as its non-followers. It was on these grounds that the Islamic Revolution has emerged victorious in Iran and founded the Islamic Republic.
The Leader of Islamic Ummah and Oppressed People Imam Sayyed Ali Khamenei’s speech delivered at UN General Assembly, 22/09/1987