The Office of the Supreme Leader

Consciences reject Zionist brutality

A ceremony was held Sunday in the presence of Islamic Revolution Leader Ayatollah Sayed Ali Khamenei to mark the birth anniversary of Hazrat Fatemeh Zahra, the honorable daughter of the Noblest Messenger of Allah, Hazrat Muhammad and the birth anniversary of the late founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Imam Khomeini.

In the ceremony, Ayatollah Khamenei congratulated the birth anniversary of Fatemeh, peace of Allah upon him.

Turning to regional developments, Ayatollah Khamenei lamented the latest brutalities of the Zionist regime in Palestine and Lebanon backed impudently by America and certain Western countries, adding the judgment of aware consciences and free individuals throughout the world rules out the Zionist regime's unprecedented oppression and criminal acts and that this humane judgment will definitely have its own effect.

Ayatollah Khamenei pointed to the all-out attacks of the Zionist usurpers on Palestine and their criminal acts in Lebanon, accompanied by the silence of Arab and Islamic governments, adding the crimes and oppression that took place in recent weeks besides the violation of human norms in Palestine and Lebanon once more proved that the Zionist entity in the region is an evil and cancerous entity and an infected tumor for the whole world of Islam.

The IR Leader said that America's ruling government is the ugliest government of the country during the recent years for audaciously supporting the killings of defenseless women, men and children in Palestine and Lebanon, adding on the opposite side of recent unprecedented crimes, there is the original Islamic movement in the world of Islam toward truthfulness and dignity, never comparable with the past, whose progress, sovereignty and dignity is notable, carrying good tidings for the world of Islam.

Ayatollah Khamenei pointed to prideful sentiments in different Islamic countries about the valiant and dignified move of the Lebanese Hezbollah, adding such feelings never before existed in the Arab and Islamic countries and for the moment in a country like Lebanon, in which many efforts were made to transform it into Western culture center, the culture of Jihad, perseverance and dignity governs the youth, unlike desire of the world bullies.

The Islamic Revolution Leader touched on the demands by America's President for the disarmament of the Lebanese Islamic Resistance Movement Hezbollah, asserting that no disarmament may ever take place because the Lebanese people are appreciating Hezbollah and realize that actually the powerful and sovereign arms of Islamic Resistance have stood up to the Zionists and have made their chaotic dream of dominating Lebanon fail.

Elaborating on the spiritual status of Hazrat Fatemeh in Islam, Ayatollah Khamenei said the existence of overall virtues in Hazrat Fatemeh bristle with spirituality indicates the view of Islam over the fateful and significant position of women, adding rather than the views of certain schools of though which consider men and women as of two kinds or types with women being a tool to meet the other's temporal desires, Islam seeks true freedom, honorableness and nobility for women and considers them as teachers of humanity.

Ayatollah Khamenei denounced the treatment of women by today's so-called civilized world and its slogan of women rights as a painful deceit and humiliation of women, adding the Islamic Republic of Iran has own position regarding women issues and the world of West must take responsibility for the ongoing oppression against women and their manipulation for carnal desires.

Ayatollah Khamenei noted that full obedience to Allah and following the conduct of His last Messenger, peace of Allah upon him, is the key to people's happiness and progress and people's their regard and affection to his household, peace upon them, must provide the ground for exercising Islamic statute.
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