Enrapt - or perhaps not
- audience members listen to a speech
by Iran's supreme
leader, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, June 30.
Kayhan, Islamic Republic of Iran
Essence of Muslim Uprisings
is 'Anti-U.S. and Anti-Zionist'
Are the Muslim uprisings a result of Arab distaste for the United States and Israel? According to this news item from Iran's state-run Kayhan, Iran's leader Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has made the unlikely claim that while most of the Muslim uprisings are against the U.S. and Israel - the uprising in Syria is a plot instigated by the 'Global Arrogance.'
Iran's enigmatic supreme leader, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei: The Iranian theologian claims that the Arab Spring is motivated by a distaste for the U.S. and Israel, rather than a desire to be free of dictatorship. In a speech, he also asserted that Syrians aren't really angry at their own government - which is one of Iran's key allies.
TEHRAN: On Thursday, Leader
of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei said that anti-U.S.
and anti-Israeli feeling was the essence of recent uprisings in countries in
the region, and that this is noting like the foreign-based unrest in Syria.
“The essence of the Islamic
awakening is an anti-Zionist and anti-U.S. movement,” Ayatollah Khamenei said. “The
Islamic awakening is a movement on the path of the prophets, and through
vigilance, Muslim nations and the great nation of Iran will prevent the
Americans and Zionists from sowing discord and other plots and derailing or
hijacking this magnificent movement,” the Leader said.
“The great Islamic awakening
in Egypt, Tunisia and other countries reflects the cruel and humiliating
balance that the expansionist West and its puppet rulers had imposed on nations
in the region over the span of the last 150 years. Now this has been upset,
giving rise to a new chapter in region's history,” Ayatollah Khamenei
emphasized.
The Leader also reiterated
that the Iranian nation and its Islamic establishment would always support all justice-seeking
and anti-imperialistic movements.
Ayatollah Khamenei underlined
that any movement against the U.S. and Zionism, as well as “any nation that
rises up against American international dictatorship and its domestic dictators,”
will be supported by the Islamic Republic.
Referring to recent
developments in Syria, the Leader stressed that the U.S. was attempting to
incite trouble and disorder against Damascus by seeking to simulate the
uprisings that took place in Egypt, Tunisia, Yemen and Libya in Syria.
Describing Syria as the
frontline state in resistance to the Zionist regime, the Leader said, “But the
nature of developments in Syria is different from events in other countries,”
noting that the involvement of U.S. and the occupying regime of Israel is
evident.
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"The logic of the
Iranian nation is simple: wherever slogans are chanted in favor of the U.S. and
Zionists, a deviance movement is present," the Leader said.
Ayatollah Khamenei said that the
appointment of the Prophet Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him) to his divine mission
was the greatest blessing of God.
The current wave of Islamic
awakening, the Leader said, is in line with the path of the Prophet Muhammad
(PBUH), and he said that Muslim nations would not allow the Americans and
Zionists to divert the movement by sowing strife.
The 23-year mission of the
Seal of the Prophets left a determining, profound and progressive effect on the
history and fate of human beings, the Leader said, adding that the Prophet
Muhammad (PBUH) founded a society based on faith, rationality, jihad and
dignity, to which all of human civilization is indebted.
Ayatollah Khamenei said that the
problems of the Islamic Ummah,
both past and present, are due to ingratitude toward this blessing.
The
planet's Muslim population, also known as the Ummah: At last
count,
23 percent of the global population, or 1.57 billion people, call
"If Muslim nations were
to enhance their faith at heart and in practice, cherish human rationality,
pursue jihad in political, military, economics and culture and would more
highly value their human dignity, they will certainly attain the position they
deserve."
The Leader said that the
future of the region is bright and that the arrogant powers are attempting to
hide this reality and deny the Islamic element to these developments.
"The Americans, the
Zionists and their followers have been using every tool they have to divert this
great movement of nations and re-impose the oppressive balance of power of the
past to bring to power their puppets. However, once a nation is awakened and
stands its ground, it can never again be defeated," Ayatollah Khamenei
said.
Meanwhile, the Leader urged
Muslims to remain vigilant against complex U.S. and Zionist conspiracies.
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Ayatollah Khamenei touched on
all sorts of plots against the Islamic Revolution, including instigations of
sectarian and religious discord, infiltrations, assassinations, and its
imposition of war on the Iranian nation. He said that the Global Arrogance will
try and do the same to all awakened Muslim nations.
Ayatollah Khamenei said
Muslim states can foil these plots by not bickering over trivial matters and
refraining from sectarian and religious divisions. He implored Muslim nations
to keep the gravity of this historic movement in mind.
Ayatollah Khamenei also
touched on the ordeals of the oppressed Bahraini nation, saying that the
revolution in Bahrain is similar to those in Egypt, Tunisia and Yemen.
The Leader also said he regretted
that, "rather than heeding the demands of their nations, some individuals
are following the wishes of Islam's enemies."
