The nations that resist in the light of their causes are successful. This success might not be apparent in the short-term to short-sighted people.
However, this success is, no doubt, established.
You view the injured people in usurped, suppressed Palestine who have resisted. If we want to see the appearance only and view the statistics, we might think that they have been beaten: they have suffered, their beloved family members were killed or injured, but indeed they have kept the plight of Palestine alive.
They troubled the enemy and made it confess to its inability. The further the austerity of the oppressing, usurper Zionist Regime becomes, the further it confesses to its inability.—This reveals its frustration.
Now, it has started to cry out loud to frighten others, by threatening humanity with a war in the region and outside the region. What is the reason? It is because those oppressed men, those women whose babies became targets of the Zionist Regime’s gunfire, those teenagers who fought against fully armed--up to their teeth--enemy, using stones, have made the enemy extremely frustrated.
Balancing power in the world is not only owed to grandeur in appearance or a visage of great power: resistance is needed. Our nation resisted and became victorious--in the revolution, in the war, and after the war-- today also it resists and it will succeed. All the pressures you notice -- propaganda, political and economic pressures, treacherous conspiracies by employing insider agents carried out by the enemies-- is because the Iranian nation, relying on the verse “Those who say: “Our Lord is Allah” and “follow the Straight Path,” have loudly announced and perseveringly adhere to their word and logical, legitimate desire, which is managing their own affairs independently, preventing intrusion of the foreigners, and relying on the divine religion and commands. But who is victorious in this battle? The nation and its resistance will triumph.
Ayatollah Khamenei, July 25, 2001
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