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Leader's speech in meeting with severely disabled war veterans

The world of mankind is in need of your message

My dears! The generation ahead of you conveyed the message of pure Islam to the world in the battlefields, political and revolutionary scenes. Today you are the heirs of those noble Martyrs and those highly appreciated men. Today not only the Islamic world but also the world of mankind is in need of your Islamic message. Ayatollah Khamenei, 11/17/2014

My dear ones! Practice piety

My dear ones! My children! Practice piety; gain piety for your own good. Piety means to be careful not to commit sins; to avoid moral decline. For example, imagine you are hiking a mountain trail. If you act out of negligence in any steps you take, your destiny will be put at risk; thus for every step you take you have no other way than taking it carefully. This is the meaning of piety. Ayatollah Khamenei, 12/7/2000

Saudis noses will be rubbed in dirt over Yemen

Preventing girls from education is against Islam: Ayatollah Khamenei

One of the major problems of U.S. is supporting regimes who repudiate human rights

This is really one of the major problems of America. Today, this problem has entangled American politicians as well. They have really gotten stuck in it. They are supporting such regimes. Over the course of many years, their anti-dictatorship slogans and claims to support human rights have been repudiated because of the existence of such regimes. In the present time, this issue has posed serious questions among American intellectuals, political personalities and thinkers and they have no answers for them. This enemy is such a creature! This is how the issue of human rights, democracy, terrorism, security and peace has worked out for the enemy who is in front of us. They used to say that they were fighting for peace, but which peace? They have polluted the whole region with war. Where in the region does war not exist? This is the enemy. He whom the Revolution is confronting and he whom you are standing up against is this!

IRGC blocks the enemy's infiltration

Three main factors behind national power

Strong economy, developing science and revolutionary spirit

Our magnanimous Imam (r.a.) said, "America is the Great Satan." This phrase is a very meaningful one. The boss of all shaitans in the world is Iblis, but according to the Holy Quran, the only thing that Iblis can do is to tempt human beings and nothing more. He tempts and deceives people, but America kills, imposes sanctions and behaves in a hypocritical way as well as tempting and deceiving.

Leader's meeting with people from different social backgrounds

According to international criteria, our elections are among the best and fairest elections with high turnout

Thankfully, our elections have been healthy ones until today. The point that I want to raise is that according to international criteria, our elections are among the best and healthiest elections with a high turnout. Unfortunately, a bad habit that some people in the country have is that they constantly question the health of elections in each term. They constantly speak about rigging in elections, their so-called concerns and such and such things. This is a wrong course of action. During the past 37 years, the people participated in elections in an enthusiastic way because of their trust in the Islamic Republic in different eras. Why do some people want to undermine this trust? The people trust the Islamic Republic. When there is an election, they enter the arena and vote. So why should we undermine this trust with false and fake concerns?

The Islamic Republic is a democratic system in the true sense of the word

At certain points in time, some demagogues and westernized individuals tried to cancel or delay elections, but by Allah's favor, they were prevented from doing so and the elections were held in their scheduled date. This is This is why our elections are thankfully the manifestation of democracy. The Islamic Republic is a democratic system in the true sense of the word. Of course, the Americans and their propaganda agents constantly speak against our elections in different ways. In the present time , they do not say even one single word against the dictatorial, tyrannical and hereditary regimes that exist in the region, but they constantly blame and make false criticisms against Iran that is holding different elections one after another. This is while in Iran, all the bases of the system - ranging from the Leadership and the president to the members of the Majlis, the Assembly of Experts and city and village councils - are elected by the people.

Elections have not been delayed even for one single day in Iran

The issue of elections is a very important issue for the country. Elections are the complete manifestation of the people's presence and choice. With their presence in the arena of elections - including presidential, parliamentary and Assembly of Expert elections - the people shape true democracy in the country. This is very important. We have not allowed this process to be stopped or delayed during the 36, 37 years that have passed from the Revolution. Elections in different countries are delayed when a war breaks out or another incident occurs, but in Iran, elections have not been delayed even for one single day. This has not happened in any era. Tehran, Khuzestan, Ilam, Kermanshah and other cities used to be bombarded, but elections were held on their scheduled date. The same thing happened everywhere in the country even in villages and those places where it is difficult to come and go. Elections have not been cancelled in this country.

Photos of Leader's meeting with President of Austria

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Leader meets with President of Kyrgyzstan

Leader's speech in meeting with Assembly of Experts

Leader's Meeting with Members of Assembly of Experts

Arrogance wants to impose its intended clichés on the people

Arrogance is trying to impose its intended clichés on the people throughout the world and on all nations ...With this imperialist attitude, they fabricate, distort and define certain concepts and they want everyone to understand and use them in their literature on the basis of their own definitions. For example, terrorism is a concept that arrogance uses in a specific sense. The same is true of human rights or democracy. From their perspective, bombarding Yemen and striking houses, hospitals and schools is not terrorism. Similarly, attacking Palestinian settlements in Gaza and other places over and over again and killing hundreds and thousands of innocent and defenseless children, women and men is not terrorism from their viewpoint. When the people of Bahrain say that each and every one of them inside that country should have a vote, this has nothing to do with human rights and it is not considered as a demand for human rights.

Book is the mother of civilizations

It is a fact that books are among the most valuable products made by man and is a reserve for the biggest human wealth which is knowledge and research. Thanks to books, Spirituality and human world, human body and soul, is being fed and nurtured and the process of human perfection will be realized through books. Book is the mother and an extract of civilizations, and man compiles the many lessons that he learned from the book of the first creation and propagates them in the human environment, and thus the reserve of human wealth gets more enriched on a daily basis. Ayatollah Khamenei, 9/12/1995

Not only husband and wife, but two friends

A lesson from Iranian mothers

It is mothers who knowingly or unknowingly pass to children a society’s culture, civilization and moral characters by means of their bodies, soul, temperament and manners. Ayatollah Khamenei, 07/27/2005

If Jesus were among us today...

If Christ were among us today, he would not spare even a single moment to fight the leaders of despotism and global arrogance; nor would he tolerate hunger and wandering of millions of people, degenerated by the hegemonic and colonialist powers into war, corruption, and violence. Leader's message to Christians and Muslims, on the anniversary of Christ's birth , December 27, 1991

Leader's speech in meeting with President and Cabinet

Leader's meeting with President and cabinet members

Photos of Leader's meeting with Hajj officials

Leader’s speech to Hajj officials

Certain Islamic groups that were provided with great opportunities in certain Islamic countries, did not have this experience and they made a mistake as a result. They made peace with the real enemy and worked against their friends. And they paid the price for this.

Photos of Leader's meeting with members of Ahlul Bayt World Assembly

Hajj is a place for exchanging experiences

The issue of unity is one of the social dimensions of hajj. Showing the greatness of the Islamic Ummah is another social dimension of hajj. The fact that several million Muslims gather in one place to attend a particular ceremony shows the greatness of the Islamic Ummah. From a country whose population is seventy, eighty million, around fifty, sixty, seventy thousand people come together and form a glorious gathering. This shows the greatness of the Islamic Ummah. Another dimension is the sharing of experiences among hajj pilgrims. Many Islamic countries have certain experiences. For example, the Iranian nation has certain experiences in confronting the enemy, in identifying the enemy, in refusing to trust the enemy, in distinguishing friends from enemies. We have experience in these areas. We did not make a mistake in distinguishing friends from enemies. From the beginning of the Revolution to this day, we have been aware that the real enemy, the aggressive, stubborn and persistent enemy is the world of global arrogance and Zionism. We have been aware of this. Sometimes this archenemy has spoken through other people. We must not make a mistake and think that those who are speaking for the enemy are the real enemy. No, as I stressed earlier, the real enemy is the arrogant powers.

Hajj is the manifestation of the formation of the Islamic Ummah

Hajj is the manifestation of Islamic unity. People with different skin colors, people from different nationalities, people with different identities, people from different Islamic denominations, people with different tendencies – all of them gather in one place as equals. They all perform Tawaf together. They all work together. They all stay in Arafat and Mash’ar. This unity is very important. Islamic solidarity is the true manifestation of harmony and unanimity during hajj, not just for the people of Iran, but also for all Muslims throughout the world, for the Islamic Ummah. God’s curse be upon those who sideline the truth of the Islamic Ummah, those who divert attention away from the importance of the Islamic Ummah, those who divide Muslims into different groups with different goals, those who magnify nationalities against the glory of the Islamic Ummah and those who create division within the Iranian nation. The Islamic Ummah is important. Glory belongs to the Islamic Ummah. Allah the Exalted will bestow His mercy and blessings on the Islamic Ummah. Hajj is a manifestation of the Islamic Ummah: it is the Islamic Ummah in microcosm. “Coming from every remote path” [The Holy Quran, 22: 27]. Muslims come together from different parts of the world and from remote places. And what a great opportunity for communicating with each other, for unity with one another, for listening to each other’s sufferings, for expressing sympathy. Apart from hajj, when do Muslims get such an opportunity?