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In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful

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الحمدلله ربّ‌العالمين

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و الصّلاة و السّلام علي سيّدنا و نبيّنا ابي‌القاسم المصطفي محمّد

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و علي ءاله الطّيّبين الطّاهرين المعصومين

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سيّما بقيّةالله في‌الارضين و علي صحبه المنتجبين

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I congratulate the auspicious Eid al-Fitr

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to you dear brethren and sisters who are present [here],

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especially to esteemed officials and also to guests, that is, esteemed ambassadors of the Islamic countries.

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I also felicitate the entire Iranian nation and all the Muslims around the world

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and I hope that the Almighty God – as we read in this prayer that

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“He who made it [this day] an Eid for Muslim”

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– will make this day an Eid for all Muslims.

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Today, unfortunately, this is not the case. Today, in the world of Islam, problems are too many.

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Islam has put so much emphasis on the unity and integrity of Muslims and brotherhood among Muslims;

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even when we try [as ordered by the Quran] to

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“hold firmly onto the rope of Allah,”

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we can hold firmly onto the rope of Allah individually, [but] Islam does not recommend this;

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“… And hold firmly onto the rope of Allah all together;” hold onto the divine rope all together, [and] remain together.

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Despite all this recommendation(s) and all this emphasis, today we Muslims, unfortunately, do not act upon this order of Islam;

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[and] the result is what you observe [now].

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I want to ask all the Muslim people, especially the ulema, intellectuals, state officials, politicians,

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pundits, [and] elites in all countries to see and observe the treacherous hand

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of the enemies of the Islamic Ummah in this division.

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This division is not natural, this division has been imposed [on Muslims], [and] this division is induced [from outside].

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Muslims can naturally live together and experiences have shown that

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when the temptation of the enemy, the trickery of the enemy,

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[and] the viciousness of the enemy has not entered the scene, they [Muslims] have lived along each other.

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This [is something that] we have seen in our country, have seen in Iraq,

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[and] have seen in other Islamic countries [as well].

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They inject this division into the world of Islam; why?

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Because this division meets the interests of the big powers. They don’t want the Islamic ummah to be united;

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[and] don’t want this huge power

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to hold its head high in the horizon of world powers and show itself; they don’t want [this].

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If the Muslim Ummah was united, if it emphasized on its commonalities,

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[in that case] it could be a unique power in the sphere of global politics without any doubt

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[especially] with this huge population, with these countries [that are located] in sensitive regions of the world,

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with these resources and underground reserves, with this natural wealth and with this [immense] human power;

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if we were untied, such a phenomenon would have conquered the world. They don’t want this to happen.

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They have planted the Zionist regime in this region in order to sow discord;

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[and] in order to occupy regional countries with their domestic affairs.

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Nations resisted against the Zionist regime, that is, they did not surrender; pay attention to this point!

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During tens of years that the Zionist regime, through support and assistance of Britain and then America,

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in this region, increased its material power day by day, during this period, some weak governments

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and some unsuitable people within Muslim governments became inclined toward these Zionists.

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Many Muslim states and established contacts with Zionists

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who were usurpers, were hostile, were aggressor, were murderer, [who] followed [the policy of] expansionism, and said [the boundaries of Israel should extend] “from Nile to Euphrates;”

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some politicians in the Muslim world

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– including the previous ominous regime of our own country and some others –

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[they established contacts] with such a government and totally overlooked hostilities;  however, the nations [did] not [do this];

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the hearts of the nations were still filled with a sense of hatred for the occupying Zionism and the Zionist government.

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The nations did not follow suit with the governments in this regard. And well, for the governments that were dependent on America

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and [were] friends and in the same league with the Zionist regime, this was difficult to tolerate.

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They thought that they should destroy this and deflect the nations from Zionists.

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What did they do? They launched these civil wars; these Sunni-Shia wars;

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these criminal organizations like al-Qaeda and Daesh (ISIS) and the likes of them were manufactured and created

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in order to pit us against one another and pit nations against one another.

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This is also [a result of] their aggressor and treacherous hand.

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Some Americans in their books of memoirs have admitted

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that they have played a role in the creation of Daesh, in development of Daesh, [and] in establishing Daesh,

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and today continue to support them as well. Now, an anti-Daesh coalition has been created. [Of course] I, for one, do not believe

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that there is really an anti-Daesh coalition;

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[however,] assuming that [it] is anything against this group, is Daesh the only [terrorist group out there]?

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Different groups with windfall riches [and] under various names around the Islamic countries

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are making effort, working, promoting terrorism, carry out explosions, kill people,

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and slay innocents in the alley, and market, and square, and mosque and the likes of them.

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They have kept the nations busy, [and have] preoccupied them; [they pit] Shia against Sunni [and] Sunni against Shia.

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They train one group on this side, radical and foul-speaking and extremist,

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and force them [so do such things] with money; [and] create another group on the other side [consisting of] radical and foul-speaking [people]

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so that they would fight each other and every one of them has a large group of people following them.

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What could be better than this for Zionists? What could be better than this for the Zionist regime?

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[Let’s] wake up! [We must] understand what is going on in the region!

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The policy of arrogant powers in this region is [among] treacherous policies; it is clearly treacherous.

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In Iraq, the policy of arrogant powers is

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to topple a government that has come out of elections and the majority [vote] and democracy;

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they are pursuing this [goal]; [they want] to weaken [the Iraqi government], to disrupt [its functioning], don’t let [the government] work,

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and pit Shia against Sunni in Iraq. I have seen Iraq before these issues;

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Shia and Sunni lived along each other, lived side by side with each other, married each other

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and today, they have to stand against each other, and take up arms against each other!

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Finally, they seek to disintegrate Iraq.

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Our policy is quite the opposite of this policy

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; we believe that the government that has come out of elections in Iraq should be bolstered;

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we believe that those people who cause domestic differences should be stood against, resisted against,

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[and] territorial integrity of Iraq should be preserved.

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This policy is quite the opposite point of the policy of the [global] arrogance in Iraq.

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In Syria, the policy of the arrogance is

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to topple at any price the government that is known for its resistance against Zionism;

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our policy is the opposite of this.

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Of course, in case of Iraq, in case of Syria, in case of Yemen, in case of Bahrain, in case of Lebanon,

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[and] in case of all countries, we believe that [the real] decision-maker are the nations of those countries

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; [therefore,] from outside, neither us, nor anybody other than us have no right to make decision on the fate of nations;

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hey should make that decision on their own. This is what we believe in.

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The policy of the arrogance with regard to Syria is to sit, outside the nation’s will,

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this government and this nation that has been known that is standing against Zionists fast and strong

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– which both the incumbent president, and the previous president, had clearly stood against the fake Zionist regime –

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[and] say that this government should not exist. We say ‘No. A government

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whose motto, whose goal and whose intent is to stand against Zionists; this government is an opportunity for the Islamic world.

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We have no specific personal gain in Syria or in Iraq;

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we are concerned about the Islamic world, our positions are as such the opposite of [the positions of] the arrogance.

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In Lebanon; for many years the arrogance and at its top, America

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had] kept silent;  and a silence combined with satisfaction, when the Zionist regime had occupied an important part of Lebanon

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Then a resistant, faithful [and] devoted group emerged,

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which among the most noble of national defense groups is this resistance group in Lebanon and the Lebanese Hezbollah

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– these are among the most noble national resistance and national defense groups across the world;

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we have had few resistance group in countries, which would act so purely, with faith, with devotion and successfully

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– and are bent on killing them and accuse them of terrorism. Is Hezbollah terrorist?

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The huge force of national defense of Lebanon is terrorist? Can this [group] be called terrorist?

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Then resistance forces which you Europeans and others are proud of throughout history

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– in France and in other countries – which stood up in order to defend their country, were they terrorist [as well]?

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A force, which has stood up against aggression, against agents of the arrogance and is sacrificing, is terrorist?

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[And] at the same time, they press the hand of the infanticide, tyrant, [and] criminal Zionist regime

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as brother, [and] as friend; this is their policy.

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The reason why we defend the Lebanon’s resistance [is this:]

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because these are a group of resistance– in the true sense [of the word] – against the enemy,

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they] are a defense group, a brave group, [and] are devoted

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[and have stood up against [them]. If it were not for them, Israel, which one day had advanced up to Sidon and beyond Sidon

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and [even] up to Beirut itself, would have occupied Beirut today, [and] there would be no Lebanon;

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it is the resistance group, which has blocked their way.

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Then Americans, the so-called honest and truthful politicians of America (!)

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call these [people] terrorist and call Iran supporter of terrorism due to its support for these [people]!

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You are supporting terrorism. It is you who create Daesh, it is you

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who train terrorist(s), [it is] you who keep the evil and terrorist Zionists under your wing;

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you are [true] supporters of terrorist(s); you must be tried for supporting and abetting terrorist [groups].

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This issue is [also] true about Yemen, is [true] about Bahrain, [and] is [true] about other countries [as well].

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In Yemen, that president who resigns his post in the most sensitive juncture [of his country’s history] in order to create political void [in the country],

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then flees the country clad in women’s clothes, does [he] have legitimacy?

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Does this president have the right to ask another country to attack his country and kill the people?

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Now, it is close to four months – or three-odd months – that they have been pounding Yemen. Who are they targeting?

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[They] target mosques, target hospitals, target cities, target [people’s] homes,

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kill innocent people, [and] kill children; what are they accused of [to deserve such treatment]?

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America is supporting these [criminals]. I said [to American officials] in [Eid al-Fitr] prayers that even now you are making a mistake.

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They point out the mistakes of their predecessors; they mention [the mistake they made on] the 28th [day] of [the Iranian month of] Mordad [August 19]; [and] say ‘we made a mistake’.

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Yes, you made a very big mistake, but you are also making a mistake right now;

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you extend the hand of friendship toward the most tyrannical of regimes; you are in cahoots [with them];

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then you say that the Islamic Republic Establishment, [every part of] which from top to the bottom has arisen from elections, is a dictatorial system!

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Are you fair?

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You Americans, you American politicians speak and pass judgment with the utmost degree of unfairness,

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[even] with regard to obvious realities. One is astounded how shameless they are! With governments that

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do not let their nations to hear the name of elections

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– which in some of these countries if somebody speaks of elections on the street, they take him to prison

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and it is not clear what happens to them – [with such governments] they are friendly, sincere, brotherly, [and] have signed brotherhood pact,

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[and] then they say the Islamic Republic Establishment, which has held thirty-odd elections in [the past] 36 years

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is dictatorship! Can they be trusted? This is why I say they cannot be trusted.

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They cannot be trusted;

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they are not people who anything true could come out of their mouths; there is no honesty in them

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In this very tough test [of nuclear negotiations] to which Mr. President [Hassan Rouhani] referred

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– in which they really took [a lot of] trouble, both him and other involved officials

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–numerous and frequent [cases of] dishonesty of them [Western countries] was shown in this period [of time].

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Well, [of course] our officials fortunately dealt with it; in some cases, they countered them in a really revolutionary way,

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worked [hard], and have achieved certain results so far; let’s see what happens next.

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Today, the world of Islam has one prescription [for its ailments] which is unity. The same prescription exists for [the situation] inside the countries;

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nations must be united. Iranian nation must be united.

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Division must not come out of these nuclear and non-nuclear affairs which every group say something

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– after all it is a job which is being done, [it] has officials [in charge] [who] are following up [on this issue];

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God willing they would recognize whatever that is [among our] national interests and pursue them

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– division must not be created among people. This is what the enemy wants.

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Now, if somebody follows this broadcasts by foreigners, [by] these radios [and] televisions

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and these websites which are being continuously developed by them and are continuously producing content,

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[they would see that] they seek to create division among people;

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don’t let division to come about; maintain [your] unity, [and] remain together.

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And power must come from within. Public and social piety is like personal piety;

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in personal piety – which fasting is for piety; the fasting month is the month to gain piety –

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when you are pious, you would become immunized [to vice] from within;

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like somebody who has taken a vaccine and has immunized himself,

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that if he goes into an environment contaminated with a germ, that germ will have no effect on him;

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piety is like that; piety does not allow the external environment to affect you;

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at least, it does not allow it to affect [you] easily; personal piety is like this. National piety is also like this;

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if a nation strengthens itself from within, strengthens its [capacity for] science, its industry,

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its faith, [and] its culture, external forces will not be able to affect it.

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This is a prescription on the basis of which all of us must act now;

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the Islamic world must act according to this prescription as well.

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O Almighty! You help us to recognize whatever that is the path of guidance and tread it.

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Peace be unto you and so may the mercy of Allah and His blessings.