Leader: US, Israel worst of all enemies

Imam Seyyed Ali Khamenei described the United States and the “Zionist regime” as “the worst of all enemies of the Iranian nation,” insisting that their countless attempts at bringing down the Islamic Republic has been proven futile.

In a Tuesday address to a large gathering of Amol citizens, the Leader of Ummah reiterated that the timeworn conspiracies of some governments against Iran and its people ‘have failed to succeed.’

“The failure of these conspiracies is mostly because the Islamic Republic of Iran is now much stronger than before,” Imam Ali Khamenei said.

“But now [the Islamic Republic] is continuing its path with a much greater determination and growing momentum,” added the Leader.

Imam Ali Khamenei said in the years following the 1979 Islamic Revolution, certain individuals and groups existed who claimed to be intellectuals, advocates of people’s choices and of a democratic nature, but eventually ended up taking arms in confronting the very people who brought to power the Islamic establishment at a great cost.

“These political movements challenged the foundation of the Islamic Republic and thus caused a great deal of inconvenience at a time when the country was already at war,” said the Leader.

The Leader clarified that such movements were mostly comprised of individuals that were seditionists (members of the terrorist Mujahidin Khalq Organization), nonbelievers, westoxified figures, and even supposed acolytes.

Such individuals and groups, the Leader said, first protested the basic principles of the late Imam Khomeini and the Islamic Republic through intellectual rhetoric, and later gradually transformed the scene for thought and political struggle to a scene of armed struggle and rebellion, creating a great deal of trouble for the people and officials during the war.

Imam Ali Khamenei next highlighted the reliance of those who oppose the Islamic establishment on the enemy, reiterating that “in the past 30 years, the US government, the Zionist regime and global Zionism have emerged as the worst of all enemies of the Iranian nation; and even today they honestly are the worst of [our] enemies and reliance on these enemies is a huge blunder.”

“We must regain cognizance and if we have done wrong or committed an error, take corrective measures,” the Leader said.

The Leader said enemy conspiracies, particularly those by the American government, have failed to yield the desired results.

“The US officials say that they have passed a $45 million budget in an effort to bring down the Islamic Republic via the internet,” asserted the Leader.

“This demonstrates how desperate the enemy is, since they have so far spent tens of the $45 million to confront the Islamic establishment by means of diplomacy, sanctions, deploying spies, hiring mercenaries, and other ways, but they have achieved nothing.”

Referring to the post-election developments in Iran, the Leader said the enemy had originally contrived to provoke unrest and chaos in the country, but their evil plots instead awakened the Iranian nation.

The Leader was speaking at an event commemorating the people’s resistance against a terrorist uprising in the city of Amol some 30 years ago.

Following the victory of the Islamic Revolution, nearly 50 armed elements of a small Maoist group called the ‘Communist Union” launched a calculated and planned attack on the city of Amol.

The rebels aimed to lay a military siege on Amol, but failed due to the vigilance of the people of the city.