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In the Name of God, the Most Compassionate, the Most Merciful

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و الحمدلله ربّ العالمين و الصّلاة و السّلام علي سيّدنا ابي‌القاسم‌ المصطفيٰ محمّد

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و علي آله الطّيّبين الطّاهرين و صحبه المنتجبين و من تبعهم باحسان الي يوم الدّين

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I congratulate all the esteemed participants, on the occasion of the grand and unique Eid of the Ordainment of the Venerable Prophet [of Islam]

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the dear guests who are in the Islamic Republic, and the respectable ambassadors of the Islamic countries

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and the entire Iranian nation and all Muslims in the world and all freedom-seeking people across the globe.

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The Ordainment is a one-of-a-kind and unique development, and in fact, no other development in the history of humanity

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exists as important and grand as the Ordainment of the Prophet.

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The Ordainment of the Prophet was the acme of the Almighty’s mercy on human beings and humanity.

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Sending prophets, [and] dispatching prophets to guide humans [and] to take humans to their point of climax

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is the greatest mercy shown by the Almighty to humans and the pinnacle of this movement was the Ordainment of the Venerable Prophet [of Islam].

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[Through the Ordainment] a way was opened to humans, and up to the end of the world,

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this way has the power and potential to take humans ahead

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just in the same manner, and from that day up to the present time, humanity has gone ahead. [As a result of the Ordainment] the human thought, the human mind

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[and] many of the facts that religions had undertaken to express have become customary in the human society

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and, praise be to God, the hearts of all human beings have become inclined and attentive to spiritualities.

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The pith of the Ordainment is monotheism. Monotheism means to worship the Almighty God in an exclusive manner;

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it means that [various kinds of human whims, caprices, lusts, and angers would not govern the human life;

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it means that dictatorships, despotism, [and] complacencies would not take hold of the human life.

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[In monotheism] the origin of management of the human life is the divine knowledge and divine power and divine mercy and divine favor and divine guidance; this is the [correct] meaning of monotheism.

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First of all, all of those people who, through their complacency, through their arrogance,

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through their despotism, [and] through their oppression, want to dominate the affairs of the human society and human societies

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are pushed back through the motto of monotheism, [and] therefore, show hostility [toward it].

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[As the Quran says,] “And thus We have made for every prophet an enemy; devils from mankind and jinn, inspiring to one another decorative speech in delusion.”

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All prophets came face to face, [and] had encounters with those who had money and power, with arrogant people of the world, with bullies of the world,

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[and] with pharaohs of the world and fought against them.

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In the absence of the fight from [the followers of] the truth, the untruth cannot be made to withdraw.

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[The fact] that from the beginning of the human history up to the present time, humanity has been getting close and closer to the divine teachings [of God] on a daily basis, is because of [this] fight;

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because the truth must fight.

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[As the Quran says,] “Those who believe, fight in the cause of Allah, and those who disbelieve fight in the cause of Taghut (Despot).”

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Without fighting against dictators and bullies and those who wish ill for humanity and oppressors and tyrants it would not be possible to get the truth ahead.

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[Therefore,] it is necessary to fight and prophets did this and monotheism lays out the general outlines and principles and main lines of this fight

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[The motto of Islam, which says] “there is no God but Allah,” is not merely a purely ideological and mental issue; “there is no God but Allah” leads to an effect [and] leads to an action.

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This very Islamic government to which Mr. President referred, which was established [by the prophet] in [the city of] Medina, was the result of [the motto of] “there is no God but Allah.”

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It means that in divine religions, government means nothing unless it is established by the Almighty God and those he chooses [as prophets].

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This is why when the prophet said,

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“Say there is no God but Allah to be saved,”

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those who had money and power in that limited and small environment of Mecca formed a front against him.

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Then when the Islamic government was established in Medina, once again, governments and empires and global powers formed a front against Islam.

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This front has existed since day one [after the advent of Islam] up to the present time, and since day one up to the present time, withdrawal in this faceoff

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has been the fate of the falsehood while advancement has been the fate of the truth.

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The same small [Muslim] population, which lived in Mecca under that [tremendous] pressure,

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is now a huge human society with numerous honors,

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with abundant potentialities and with high hope and a bright future.

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This must be understood: The Islamic Ummah must return to monotheism from the bottom of its heart.

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If we believe in monotheism, we cannot give in to bullying, cannot give in to oppression,

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[and] cannot stop resisting the oppressors; this is the nature of monotheism.

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[The fact] that the Islamic Republic announces that wherever there is an oppressed person and help is needed, we are present there, is because of this;

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[and] this is why we show such insistence on the issue of Palestine,

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because the requisite of monotheism is that humans must stand against bullying of the oppressor against the oppressed; the truth of monotheism is this

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and the Ordainment reminds us of this [reality]; and this [concept] will certainly progress.

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Now, of course, there has been a lot of pressure on the people of Palestine at this time and in the past – during these seventy years –

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but you look that the same oppressed [and] limited population, the Zionists managed to finally overcome

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and drive a nation out of its own country and deny them access [to their motherland] and to dominate that country;

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the same weak nation has at the present time turned into a powerful Palestine,

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which threatens the Zionist government and the Zionist government feels weak in the face of that government, [and] feels helpless;

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and without a doubt, Palestinians [will] finally overcome Zionists and Palestine will return to the control of Palestinians.

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This is why we are standing by resistance groups in the West Asia region.

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This is the reason behind our presence in Syria to confront and encounter terrorists, which America and its agents had created in the region.

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That they say “the Islamic Republic of Iran is expansionist, [and] wants to conquer that given place,” these are nonsensical

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and meaningless and unreal and false remarks. No, we do not intend to expand [our influence] and have no expansionist approach to any point in the world;

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[and] we do not need [such a policy] either. Praise be to God, the Iranian nation has a big [and] developed country full of potentialities in its control.

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[This regional presence] is because resistance against oppression existed and [still] exists

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in the region of Syria, [and] in West Asia; this is why we are present there.

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Therefore, you see that through the divine assistance, [and] due to the assistance that it has received

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and because of the courage that the Syrian forces had, the [resistance] front succeeded to overcome terrorists [who were not only] supported,

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but [also] created by America and Western countries and their mercenaries in the region – such as Saudi (Arabia) and the likes of these –

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[and] managed to defeat them.

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The same people who supported Daesh [terrorists] overtly and covertly in the past, are now claiming

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that they have been involved in countering them and have defeated them; [and] they are lying [about this]! There is no such thing, [because] they had no role [in this regard].

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In this speech, which the American president made a few hours ago, he said,

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“We succeeded to defeat Daesh in Syria.” [This is] an obvious and blatant lie!

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Wherever they deemed necessary, they took action and helped [Daesh terrorists];

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wherever the main elements of Daesh were under siege, they took action and saved them.

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Before [that], they were effective in the creation of Daesh. Through [spending] the money of Saudi [Arabia] and the likes of Saudi [Arabia], they succeeded

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to create these wicked creatures and to pit them against Iraqi and Syrian nations.

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However, the “resistance” against America and against the agents of America managed to save these two countries; and it will be like this afterwards.

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This attack [by the United States, Britain and France] on Syria during last night’s dawn is a crime!

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I clearly announce that the president of America, the president of France and the prime minister of England are criminals and have committed a crime!

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Of course, they will not achieve anything [through this attack on Syria and] will not benefit from it, just in the same way that in these past years, they were present in Iraq,

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in Syria [and] in Afghanistan and committed such crimes

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and did not benefit [from them] at all. It was just a few days ago when the American president said ‘we have spent seven trillion [dollars]

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in the West Asia region – [or] the Middle East as he called it – without getting anything [in return]’. He is right; they got nothing.

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America must also know that regardless of how much [money] it spends after this [and] how much effort [it makes], it will certainly get nothing in this region.

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We must wake up in the face of these developments, [and] we must remain vigilant.

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Islamic nations, Islamic countries, [and] Muslim governments must gain [more] experience, [and] must understand what they are doing.

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These [enemies] want to deal a blow to the Islamic Ummah.

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The goal is not just the country of Syria or the country of Iraq or the country of Afghanistan;

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[but their main] goal is [to undermine] the presence [and role] of Islam in this region; they want to deal a blow to this. Islamic countries [must] understand this concept.

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Islamic governments must avoid serving the goals of America and some [other] aggressor Western countries.

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This is no cause of honor for a Muslim country that the president of America

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would openly say ‘we look at them as a milk cow’. They look at these [Saudis] as a milk cow; is this any cause for honor?

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This incumbent American president said this during his election campaigns last year.

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He said ‘we look at Saudis as a milk cow!’ Can any humiliation be worse than this?

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Is there any higher degree of humiliation than this for a government [and] for a nation? They take its money [and] then address it as a cow milk [and] insult it;

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no degree of humiliation higher than this is possible for a country and a government; Islam is against such [cases of] humiliation.

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[As the Quran says,] “And to Allah belongs [all] dignity, and to His Messenger, and to the believers.”

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If they were faithful, they should be dignified; this lack of dignity is a sign that these [Saudis] do not have faith, are not faithful, [and] are lying [about it],

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just in the same way that their [Western] masters lie. The president of America says ‘we have attacked Syria

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in order to fight the use of chemical weapons’! This is a lie.

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It is they [who are] not against the use of chemical weapons – neither [the use of] chemical weapons nor any other crime against humanity.

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At the present time, Yemen is being bombarded on a daily basis [and] these [Americans] are supporting it.

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Muslims in various parts of the world come under pressure and these [Americans] support that oppressor and help him;

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these [American leaders] will never be upset about a people suffering [and] having pain.

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It was these [Americans] who supported the criminal Saddam [and] backed him.

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Thousands of people in Iran and Iraq were annihilated or harmed by chemical weapons, which Saddam used.

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There are still youths among our people who were harmed at that time and are [still] suffering.

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These [Americans] are not against [the use of chemical weapons], [but] they take action for the sake of their colonialistic and international dictatorship goals

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and accuse this and that [country] of dictatorship, [while] they themselves are international dictators.

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Of course, dictators and despots do not succeed anywhere in the world, [and] these [Americans] will not succeed either

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and there is no doubt that America will fail in [achieving] its goals in this region and in any [other] region where it wants to oppress [people],

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and [know that] nations will certainly emerge as victorious and, God willing, this will happen in this region as well.

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Thank God, our nation is standing tall. Based on its forty-year experience, the Iranian nation

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is unwavering in its resistance and steadfastness. We have tested this: when faced with an enemy, “withdrawal” will encourage the enemy [to move forward];

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in the face of an enemy, “resistance” will cause enemy to backtrack.

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[As the Quran says,] “And if those [Meccans] who disbelieve had fought you, they would have turned their backs [in flight]. Then they would not find a protector or a helper. [This is] the established way of Allah, which has occurred before. And never will you find in the way of Allah any change.”

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This is the divine tradition: if you stand against oppression and dictatorship and bullying

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and wickedness and crimes committed by criminals of the world, they will certainly be forced to retreat. This is the Holy Quran,

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which mentions this as an unchanging tradition of history and a divine tradition, and this tradition,

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God willing, will be materialized. And I hope that the Iranian nation, Syrian nation, Iraqi nation, the oppressed Palestinian nation,

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[the Muslim] people of Kashmir and Myanmar, and all regions in the world where Muslims are under pressure,

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God willing, would become successful in a not-so-far future and, God willing, would be able to push [their] enemies back.

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O Almighty God! [We swear you] by [Prophet] Mohammad and by the Household of Mohammad to satiate the purified souls of martyrs –

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those who were martyred on the path of righteousness and truth – and the purified soul of the honorable Imam [Khomeini] with your favor and blessing.

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