Leader calls on university students to continue Revolution’s goals

Leader of the Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, granted an audience on Monday to university students and representatives of students’ unions, and during the 3-hour long meeting that saw students freely air their views on a variety of topics, he stressed the need to continue fulfilling the objectives of the Islamic Revolution.

According to Mehr News Agency, he said: "After the Islamic Revolution, there was a false assumption that the ‘revolution’ would last until formation of the governmental system, and then there was no need for it, since the goal was achieved."

He added that a revolution has several stages: The first stage of every revolution is victory. The second stage is the realization of ideals through the revolutionary government; the third is the realization of values in the revolutionary society; and finally the formation of the Islamic revolutionary civilization.

The Leader of the Islamic Revolution said these ideals cannot be realized in the short term and the revolution should persist until the ideals are realized.

He described ‘national confidence’, ‘political, economic and cultural independence’ and ‘freedom’ including ‘freedom of thought, speech and practice’ as some of the ideals of the Islamic Establishment, and said "if there is no freedom, there is no spiritual growth, and there will not be any progress in society.

He, however, added: “freedom requires law and framework. Otherwise it will lead to ‘tomfoolery’ that exists in the Western world.”

Ayatollah Khamenei said "the establishment of justice", "material and civilized progress based on technology," "the progress of communicative ethics," and "preparing space for the growth of spirituality and the liberation from lust and wrath," were other ideals of the Revolution. He maintained that the realization of these ideals is not possible in the short term, but requires a long-term move, based on awareness and vigilance.

He added: “Based on the facts, I believe that the Islamic Establishment has made progress in all these ideals during the past forty years.”

The Leader of the Islamic Revolution went on to stress that the domestic problems have not emerged solely because of the plots of Global Arrogance, but internal factors were to blame for most of the country’s problems.

He warned that while many of the issues have domestic causes, the enemies take advantage of them in a bid to serve their own political interests.

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