Leader of Islamic Ummah and Oppressed People urges people to keep vigilance

Leader of Islamic Ummah and Oppressed People  Imam Sayyed Ali Khamenei told a large gathering of people from the Qom province Sunday that the Iranian nation by passing through different divine tests in the past 32 years is now stronger than ever and will keep the path towards the peaks of prosperity and perfection.

The meeting was held on the 33rd anniversary of the historical uprising of people in Qom against the ousted regime of Shah.

Imam Khamenei said the event showed the Qom people are at forefront of any revolutionary scene, adding that the uprising was a slap in the face of the Shah regime and the world arrogance and set the stage for the Islamic Revolution victory.

Leader of Islamic Ummah and Oppressed People noted that enemies have proved to be sensitive towards the people and the religious school of Qom because they have showed a sublime sense of responsibility in every revolutionary scene. Leader of Islamic Ummah and Oppressed People also noted that the enemy’s reaction towards the responsible presence of people during his visit months ago to the religious city was another token of the sublime spirit of the people as well as the frustration and vulnerability of the enemies.

The IR Leader said the reaction of the world of arrogance towards the Islamic Revolution in the past 32 years was another sign of enemy’s vulnerability as well as the significance of the Iranian people’s movement.

“The formation of the Islamic system in Iran offered a new path based on true Islam. The arrogance could not tolerate the issue, hence its oppositions to the Islamic Republic of Iran,” the IR Leader added.

Leader of Islamic Ummah and Oppressed People said the nation has successfully elevated itself in material and spiritual issues thank to its success in divine tests.

Imam Khamenei then touched on the 2009 political sedition following the presidential elections, saying, “In God’s favor, the people got awakened and took to the scene and thwarted the big sedition,” Ayatollah Khamenei said, noting that the dimensions of the complex sedition have yet to be known.

Leader of Islamic Ummah and Oppressed People said foreign plotters were the main perpetrators in the 2009 sedition, adding that the individuals who are described by people as ‘leaders of sedition’ were actually a puppet in the hand of the main plotters who sought to remove the Islamic Republic and change the system.

“They sought to remove the Islamic Republic and religion as a whole from the Iranian community and then set up their favorable government,” Imam Khamenei said.

“They had also planned for another likely state of affairs, namely to push the country to riots in case they could not gain their initial goals, and then create a cartoon-like imitation of Islamic Revolution,” Imam Khamenei said, adding that the nation made a precise understanding of the situation and dismantled the sedition.

The IR Leader regarded the success of the Iranian nation in this grand and complicated examination as paving the way for highlighting the line of religion and Revolution in the country and the increasing strength of the Islamic system, saying: “The increasing strength is in fact the divine prize for the success in this examination.”

Imam Khamenei called on all individuals and officials to keep vigilance and to correctly detect main issues from subsidiary ones and avoid treating the subsidiary issue as main ones.

“Lacking insight and failing in divine examination leads to decline and deterioration of society,” Ayatollah Khamenei said, noting, as an example, that people’s failure in divine examination in Imam Ali’s (P.B.U.H.) era and his martyrdom in the altar of worship by the hand of the most wicked one led to the martyrdom of Imam Hossein (P.B.U.H.) and his comrades in the Karbala incident.

He regarded the current high position of the Iranian nation and their success in local and global issues as the outcome of their success in different examinations, saying: “The enemy has made a lot of efforts to stop the Islamic system from continuing the path of progress through economic pressures and false and ample propaganda and through making other governments and nations scared of the Islamic Republic of Iran but has failed.”

Referring to the failure of US policies in issues of Palestine, Lebanon, Afghanistan and Iraq, the IR Leader added: “The Americans present the Islamic Republic of Iran as the main cause of their failures while they have been defeated by the awakening and the right policy of nations.”

“The effect and strength of the Islamic Republic of Iran in the region and among nations is a spiritual effect because the Islamic system causes the awakening of nations and it is in such a situation that America makes all its efforts to prevent the current Iraqi government from coming to power but because of the awakening of people this government came to power and America could not do anything,” Imam Khamenei stressed.

The IR Leader regarded the will and determination of people and officials for taking this path as good and strong, stressing that the path of progress would be successfully continued provided the people remain awakened and avoid underestimating the enemy.

“All individuals especially the youth, Alims, academics and officials should keep and double their vigilance,” he added.

“The officials’ awakening is to serve the people and keep integrity among them. This would be a thorn in the enemies’ eyes,” the IR Leader concluded.