Highlighting the failure of the Zionist regime in destroying the resistance front despite killing more than 50,000 innocent civilians, Imam Khamenei made clear that Western civilization and politicians suffered even a bigger defeat.
“The front of Resistance is standing firmly before that front of evil. With God’s grace, the front of Resistance will be the victors,” he asserted.
Imam Khamenei said the current regional issues and the events in Gaza, Lebanon and the West Bank are history-making events, adding, “If there were no people like Martyr Sinwar who would fight until the last moment, or if there were no great people like Martyr Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah who combined Jihad, wisdom, courage and sacrifice to bring them to the field, the fate of the region would have been determined in a different way.”
The outcome of the events in the region is a big defeat not just for the Zionist regime but more so for the civilization and culture of the West, the Leader of the Islamic Revolution said.
“The Zionists thought they could easily destroy the Resistance groups, but today, the Resistance front and the young fighters in Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Hezbollah and other Resistance groups are fighting with the same spirit and strength, which is a big defeat for the Zionist regime, despite murdering more than 50,000 defenseless civilians and several prominent Resistance leaders, and also in spite of the huge amount of money and support from the US, which sparked global hatred against them, in a way that even in US universities there have been marches against the criminals,” he said.
He further said the massacre of 10,000 innocent children with two-ton bombs and all kinds of weapons, while Western politicians did not even raise an eyebrow, dishonored lying Western politicians and self-styled human rights advocates. “It showed the disgrace of Western civilization to the whole world, which is the biggest defeat for them.”
Imam Khamenei called the front that supports the Zionist regime the front of evil, adding, “Against this front of evil stands the front of Resistance, and by the grace of God, victory belongs to Resistance front.”
During the meeting, the Leader of the Islamic Revolution also called Fars province the best manifestation of the combination of religion, epic and art.
He honored the memory of the prominent martyrs of the province from the past to the present, including Martyr Masoumeh Karbasi, who recently embraced martyrdom in the Zionist regime’s onslaught in Lebanon, saying, “The congress of martyrs of Fars province should make this beautiful combination of epic, art and religion ever-lasting.”
Referring to the efforts made during the Pahlavi era to de-religionize Shiraz and Fars province, he stated: “Those who thought in that era that they could turn Shiraz from the shrine of Ahl al-Bayt and center of religion and faith into the center of corruption with cheap measures such as the Shiraz Art Festival were utterly wrong.”
Adding to that point, Imam Khamenei went on to say, even today, some remnants of that system “in our dear country seek to separate art from spirituality and epic, but what makes the country and nation progress is the combination of religion, epic and art.”
Imam Khamenei also advised those involved in holding the 15,000 Martyrs of Fars Province Congress to evaluate the effectiveness of cultural and artistic productions.
He added, “Our youth should know the proud history of the country, especially the years after the Revolution and facts such as the dimensions of the capture of the American espionage den in Tehran or the cause of the 8-year war against the Ba’athist enemy, which requires a good and correct narrative of the events of the Revolution.”
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