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Organizers of Conference on Centennial of Constitutionalism in Iran Meet the Leader

Leader's Speech to Laborers

Leader Receives Thousands of Workers from across the Country

Sudanese President Meets the Leader

Leader Receives Army Commanders

Leader's Speech in Meeting with Government Officials and Ambassadors of Islamic Countries on

Officials of the Islamic Republic Meet the Leader

Arabic-Speaking Poets Call on the Leader

Palestine should be ruled by a single government elected by all Palestinians

Today, all Muslim nations should treat the issue of Palestine as their own issue. This is a mysterious key that will open the doors of deliverance to the Muslim Ummah. Palestine should return to the Palestinian nation, and a single Palestinian government, elected by all Palestinians, should administer the entire Palestinian territories. The fifty-year efforts of Britain and the United States and Zionists to remove the word 'Palestine' from world maps and incorporate the Palestinian nation into other nations have proved futile, and their pressures, injustice and cruelty have yielded contrary results. Today, the Palestinian people are livelier, more valorous and more efficient than their predecessors who lived some sixty years ago. This process which has emerged as a result of faith, jihad and the glorious Intifada will continue, and this divine promise will be fulfilled that "Allah has promised to those of you who believe and do good that He will most certainly make them rulers in the earth as He made rulers those before them, and that He will most certainly establish for them their religion which He has chosen for them, and that He will most certainly, after their fear, give them security in exchange; they shall serve Me, not associating aught with Me; and those who disbelieve henceforth, they are rebellious and wicked." (the Holy Qur'an, 24: 55) It is also possible in a vaster arena, namely the Islamic world, to achieve the noble objective of freedom from domination, bullying and intervention on the part of colonialists and live under the banner of Islam, but this is contingent on a jihad of a different kind, namely a scientific, political and moral jihad.

The usurping of Palestine for a long period of time was plotted, executed by Western politicians

The present age is the era of Islamic awakening, and Palestine lies at the center of this awakening. Almost sixty years have passed since the occupation of Palestine, and the oppressed Palestinian people have endured hard times and undergone various trials, ranging from desperate empty-handed resistance following the occupation, homelessness and displacement, witnessing the destruction of their homes and the massacre of their relatives and dear ones to seeking assistance from international organizations and engaging in futile political deals and the gamble of negotiation with the occupier, a gamble that yielded nothing but a heavy loss, and the mediation of those powers that were the main culprits in the creation and continuation of their plight and suffering. The outcome of this historic experience helped the new zealous generation of this valorous nation to reach the summit of awakening and broad-mindedness and caused the volcano of the Intifada to erupt. On the opposite front also various steps were taken on a different path, ranging from merciless and unbridled ferocity, genocide and wrathful demolition, military aggression against neighbors and claims to the territories from the Nile to the Euphrates, to political and economic encroachment on the region by profiting from the weakness and betrayal on the part of certain politicians of the Islamic world and, all of a sudden, confronting the awakening of the sleeping lion of Palestine and the roaring Intifada of a nation fed up with and rising against oppression. Today, the product of this adventurous process, which was reliant all the time on the money and might of the United States and Britain and their shameful support for Zionist criminals, is wavering and despair on the part of those ruling the usurper Zionist regime and their coming face to face with the sweeping wave of rising Islamic awakening. It is true that Palestine is even today the scene of the most heinous crimes in human history being committed by alien and usurper Zionists against the oppressed owners of Palestinian territories, and the most brutal atrocities are being openly and boastfully perpetrated by the Zionist regime in an unprecedented manner. However, a glance at what has happened over the past sixty years reveals a surprising reality, which serves as a lesson, and this reality is nothing but a great change on the scene and the shift of power from one front to the other both in Palestine and in the Middle East and the Islamic world. As a matter of fact, Western politicians had planned and given rise to the tragedy of the usurpation of Palestine with the intention of ensuring their long-term control and domination of Palestinian territories.

The story of the usurping of Palestine

Think of the Palestine of the 1940's: a land in the heart of the Arab world, a poor country with a weak government and an unaware nation and some neighbors installed by colonial powers. The wealthiest and most evil Western government with the greatest stockpile of arms and weapons, provoked by the Zionists, took it away from Muslims and entrusted it to a racist, belligerent and terrorist party which received support from all Western countries and from both of the world's two political blocs that were at odds with each other. It also received services from the puppet regimes in the region, including the Pahlavi regime in Iran and others that had turned their backs on Islam and Arab nations. It was provided with money, weapons, science and technology from everywhere. The United States acted as its guardian, attorney and caterer, and this was the only issue on which the former Soviet Union expressed no disagreement with the United States. The UN resolutions, even in their weak and conservative form, were utterly ignored by the forged and rogue Zionist regime. Relying on the backing and support on the part of the United States and Europe, the Zionist regime launched a military offensive on Egypt, Syria, Jordan and Lebanon and occupied some parts of their territories with the intention of annexing them. The Zionist regime openly and audaciously made threats to assassinate, kill and plunder, and notorious terrorists took power one after another in this regime, the last of whom was the infamous butcher of 'Sabra and Shatila'. For tens of years, the usurper Zionist regime remained on the scene of Palestine with a violent, inflexible and invincible face.

Leader's Address to the 3rd Intl. Conference on the Holy Quds and Support for the Palestinian People

What follows is the text of an address made by the Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Khamenei at the inaugural ceremony of the 3rd International Conference on the Holy Quds and Support for the Palestinian People's Rights. The three-day conference was held in Tehran from April 14 to April 16.

Leader Addresses the 3rd International Conference on the Holy Quds

Leader's Speech to Basijis

Thousands of Basijis from across the Country Call on the Leader

Leader's Statements in a Meeting with Residents of Dasht-e-Azadegan, Sousangerd, Bostan, Hamidiyeh a

What follows is an excerpt from the statements made by the Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Khamenei in a meeting with thousands of residents and Arabic-speaking tribes of Dasht-e-Azadegan, Sousangerd, Bostan, Hamidiyeh and Hovayzeh on March 25, 2006. The meeting took place in the Dehlaviyeh region in southern Khouzestan Province.

Residents of Dasht-e-Azadegan, Sousangerd, Bostan and Hamidiyeh Regions Meet the Leader

Leader Addresses Large Gathering in Mashhad on New Year's Day

Why Iran shouldn't advance in nuclear technology?

In summary, the enemy wants to say to the people of Iran, "You should not have nuclear technology". Why? "It is because nuclear technology will make you strong in different arenas. You should not have this technology so that you remain weak and it becomes easier to bully you". The people should be careful about what exists at the heart of the enemy's words

Leader's Speech at the Shrine of Imam Ridha (a.s.)

Leader's Message on the Iranian New Year

The Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Khamenei on March 20, 2006 issued a message on the occasion of the Iranian New Year, which commences on March 21. The text of the Leader's message is as follows:...

Iranian Foreign Minister, Ambassadors and Charges d'Affaires Meet the Leader

Leader Attends Ceremony Marking 11th Departure Anniversary of Hajji Sayyid Ahmad Khomeini

Members of the Experts Assembly Call on the Leader

Senior LEF Officers Meet the Leader

Leader Receives Mayor of Tehran, City Councilors and Mayors of Municipal Districts

Leader's Speech to Governor-Generals

The following is an abridgement of a speech made by the Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Khamenei in a meeting with the interior minister and governor-generals of various Iranian provinces on February 27, 2006.

Interior Minister and Governor-Generals Call on the Leader

SCIRIB Members Meet the Leader

Leader's Message on Desecration of holy Askariya Shrine in Samarra

The Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Khamenei in a message issued on February 22, 2006 expressed his condolence over the tragic incident of the desecration of the holy shrine of Imam Ali-ibn-Muhammad al-Hadi (greetings be upon him) and Imam Hassan-ibn-Ali al-Askari (greetings be upon him) in the Iraqi city of Samarra. He also declared a week of public mourning in Iran. The text of the Leader's message is as follows:...