tehran, jan. 28, irna -- the office of the leader of islamic revolution
and supreme religious jurisprudent, grand ayatollah Seyyid Ali Khamene’i released a
communique here wednesday night saying that "thursday is declared `eid-ul
fitr' the
first day of shawal (the lunar month) with the sighting of the new moon in the different
regions of the islamic republic of iran."
the statement further read, "we pray for the acceptance of the
prayers and fasting of the committed muslim brothers and sisters in the world and those of
iran and that we extend our felicitations on this auspicious occasion to the muslims
around the world specially and to our dear iranians as well." on the auspicious
occasion of `eid-ul fitr' irna also expresses its best wishes to all iranians and muslims
around the world.
tehran, jan. 2, irna -- the leader of the islamic revolution, supreme
religious jurisprudent and the friday prayer leader, grand ayatollah Seyyid Ali
Khamene’i stated that "arrogant power count on their highly systematized
propaganda machine to counter islamic sovereign state." in his address to a great
number of worshippers congregated at tehran university campus and the vicinity on the
first friday of the holy fasting month of ramadhan, the friday prayer leader went on to
say that "the arrogant powers had vital role in transforming and destroying marxist
doctrine in east europe through its enormous and strange propaganda machine."
"basing the experience attained in the east european communist countries, the
arrogant powers are of the belief that they can apply the same kind of guileful propaganda
tricks against the islamic republic of iran," highlighted ayatollah Khamene’i.
the leader then drew the attention of the nation that "the
arrogant powers are fully mistaken in comparing the islamic republic of iran with european
communist countries and the iranian nation with east european peoples as being the
same." referring to the united states' and united kingdom's propaganda against the
islamic republic of iran during the eight-year iraqi imposed war as a clear example of the
sly nature of their propaganda, the supreme religious jurisprudent underlined that
"the iranian people have not forgotten their guileful propaganda in presenting the
war observely in the benefit of the enemy of iran." ayatollah Khamene’i
elucidated that "the nation is fully aware of the history of the negative and hostile
propaganda against the islamic revolution carried out by the notorious arrogant power and
that such insidious acts would not have any effect over the nation."
the friday prayer leader further propounded that "it would be in
their interest to see iran being unstable and insecure, and if they can, they would like
to bring about instability and insecurity in the nation. the grand ayatollah then deduced
that "when they see no way of injecting their satanic conspiracies, the arrogant
powers try to show iran as an unstable and insecure country." "if they could
achieve a minimum of spreading rumors to destabilize the rational mentality of some
people, create doubt in their minds, and plant fear in their hearts and create suspicion
in the minds of the foreign friends of the islamic republic of iran, they consider it a
great success in their wily propaganda," said the friday prayer leader.
then referring to the old tricks of the arrogant powers, the leader of
the islamic revolution stated "they want to show that there exists differences among
the iranian officials." "however, iran's clear cut policies during the eighth
oic summit in tehran, has baffled all political analysts in the world and they had come to
the realization of this fact and a firm conclusion that `the officials of the islamic
republic of iran are united and of same consensus in matters of the policies of the
nation'," highlighted the leader.
the leader of the islamic revolution dismissed `any rumors of any high
ranking official, people or faction being inclined towards the west'. "the arrogant
power seeing the islamic republic of iran having adopted a wise and rational
policy, the
west and the united states are, in their insidious propaganda, trying to instill the
notion that there exists differences among the officials of iran," pointed out
ayatollah Khamene’i. "in another ploy of western satanic
propaganda conspiracy, the west is trying to depict the iranian young generation being
indifferent to the affairs of the religion," adduced the leader. "at the time
when the young generation in the world are becoming more and more corrupt, our iranian
youths show depth of adherence to their religious rituals, a clear demonstration of their
pious nature and innate traits," the ayatollah added. leader of the islamic
revolution finally drew the attention of the ummah, "bbc, the voice of america and
the zionist radio are spending in billions of dollars trying to drive their satanic ploys
which might possibly work in their interests; however they should clearly comprehend this
reality that no one in the islamic republic of iran would buy them."