For a trip I made to Pakistan, Imam Khomeini (RA) asked me to tell the religious scholars in Pakistan that: pressures exerted on us by the U.S., reactionaries, East and West are not because we are Iranian; rather it is because [we follow] Islam. The day world feels we are – God Forbidden – not serious about Islam, the day the Arrogant front feels that we would deal on Islam and we are indifferent, those pressures would come to an end. I conveyed what Imam Khomeini had said word by word to the religious scholars of Pakistan – where a large number of Muslim scholars from across Pakistan had gathered.
Imam Khamenei, 27/6/1989