Our power is the reason why there is so much uproar against the Islamic Republic. Imam Khomeini (may God bestow paradise on him) once asked: "If the Islamic Republic is not important, why are you deploying your forces against it? If it is not important, why are you making so many efforts to confront it?" This shows that the Islamic Republic is powerful. They created uproar over the position that our president adopted a few days go. Of course, this was not their first time. They have done these things many times. Around ten, eleven years ago, they created uproar over the murder of Yitzhak Rabin after our President made a comment. They created uproar over this, asking why the president of the Islamic Republic expressed happiness over the murder of Israel's prime minister. The first thing one feels is shame before humanity in place of the European and Western leaders. But it is these leaders who should feel ashamed for being so heavily influenced by the Zionists. [Oct. 30, 2005]