Leader: People foil very dangerous plot against nation (1)
Dec 04, 2019 10:08 UTC
Leader of the Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, on Wednesday November 27, granted audience in Tehran to a nationwide gathering of Basij forces on the occasion of the annual week that commemorates the founding of this popular Volunteer Force, forty years ago by the Father of the Islamic Revolution, Imam Khomeini (RA).
He told the audience that thanks to people’s vigilance and presence on the scene, a very dangerous plot hatched by the avowed enemies of Islamic Iran, was foiled.
The following is the first part of Leader of the Islamic Revolution’s memorable speech, which we have divided into three parts.
The Leader thanked Allah Almighty for His Favours and saluted the Master of Divine Messengers, Prophet Mohammad (blessings of God upon him and his progeny). He praised the Prophet’s Immaculate Household, the Ahl al-Bayt, and greeted the Lord of the Age, Imam Mahdi (AS) – God hasten his reappearance for setting up of the global government of peace, prosperity and justice.
He then said: “You are very welcome dear youth, dear Basijis, the apples of the Iranian nation’s eye and the hopes of the future. I congratulate you, us and the entire nation on Basij Week. I thank the honourable Commander-in-Chief of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) and the honourable Head of the Basij Organization for the good comments they have made today. In my opinion, the analysis made by Mr. Hussain Salaami – the honourable Commander-in-Chief of the IRGC – should be written down and distributed among the youths, because it was very good, and he made very good remarks.
“Today, my discussion is primarily about the Basij, but before I begin, I deem it necessary to express my deep gratitude to the great people of Iran for the glorious action they took in recent days. Indeed, the Iranian nation proved once more that they are powerful and magnificent.
“I insist that the entire Iranian nation should pay proper attention to its power and magnificence. A deep, intricate, and very dangerous plot, involving the flow of a lot of money to the seditionists, was foiled by the people. The enemies spent lavishly and spared no efforts in their seditious move, characterized by sabotage, arson, murder, and malice – towards the Iranian nation – at an opportune moment. When the petrol prices rose, they thought they had found the opportunity to bring their armed thugs into the arena.
“However, the police force, the Basij, the IRGC swung into timely action as part of their duty and accomplished their jobs in that difficult situation. In addition, what the Iranian nation did in the course of one week was beyond any operational move. It was much more significant. This very important public movement was first launched in the cities of Zanjan and Tabriz, and later extended to all other cities of the country – even to several villages. The great movement of the people reached its climax in Tehran on November 25.”
The Leader of the Islamic Revolution pointed out: “The enemies, the main ones, and not those mean, small and insignificant ones – in other words, Global Arrogance and International Zionism – those who sit at their political monitors watching the whole world know what this movement means. They were slapped in the face and they were forced to retreat in the face of the great movement of the Iranian nation. I thank God and I am also grateful to the nation. The gratitude of this humble person is not very valuable. Allah the Exalted is and will be thankful to this great popular movement, Insha Allah (God willing).
As for the Basij, first of all, this Volunteer Force in the Islamic Republic is unique in the whole world. The day when it was established it had no counterparts anywhere in the world. No part of Basij is imported and no aspect of it was copied from any part of the world – no aspect of it whatsoever. It was a movement completely reliant on revolutionary philosophy and thinking. It was Allah the Exalted Who inspired our magnanimous Imam Khomeini (RA), thus materializing a great phenomenon. Perhaps, it can be said that Basij is the biggest cultural, social and military network in the world. I do not know of a great popular network, anywhere, which enjoys such a vast scope and such a large number of participants.
“How did our magnanimous Imam create this peerless phenomenon? You might not have seen the Late Imam, but we used to live with him for many years. The brilliance of our magnanimous Imam was that he created and shaped this peerless phenomenon in the heart of the alleys and streets of the country. This beautiful and living truth sprang from the heart of the people themselves. It emerged out of the hearts and the houses of the people. Such was the brilliance of the Late Imam.
“The formation of Basij was a true and real manifestation of turning threats into opportunities. You should pay careful attention to this point. On the 13th of Aban of 1358 (that is, 4th November 1979), the events surrounding the capture of the Den of Espionage [US Embassy] took place. The Americans were humiliated, and they began to threaten and to react. They issued verbal threats and then they dispatched their battlecruisers into the Persian Gulf. In other words, they resorted to a practical threat. Well, take the case of a nation like Iran, which did not have [functioning] armed forces, enough defensive resources, missiles and good operational plans. In such circumstances, the US embarks on confronting and threatening that nation. Well, this is a threat. Is it not?
“Within a month from the 4th of November, the Imam issued the decree to set up the Basij on the 27th of November. In other words, that great movement, that great presence of the people and that great display of power in the face of US threats came into being less than a month after the events of November 4. This signifies that Basij actually turned threats into opportunities. This is the truth of Basij. If we had become terrified of the US threats – for instance, if the Imam had backed out or if he had changed his mind on the assumption that the enemy might strike Iran – it would not have been clear what the fate of the country would be.”
Ayatollah Khamenei noted: “Thus, the existence of Basij caused those threats to turn into a great opportunity. So the main logic of Basij is this: Eliminating threats and turning them into opportunities. We have many threats ahead of us. Each and every one of these threats should turn into an opportunity with the spirit and creativeness of the Basij. The more the threats, the more opportunities we will have. Therefore, threats are actually not threats anymore, rather they create opportunities for us thanks to the Basij.
“Well, there is one fundamental point here which is the fact that the domineering or hegemonic system is basically against freedom and justice. The Domineering
System is a term that we introduced to politics. It means the system of oppressors, a system that is headed by the oppressors who divide the world into two parts – one part is formed of oppressors and the other is formed of the oppressed. There is no third option.
“As you can see, it is against justice; in the rich countries ruled by the Domineering System – in countries such as the US and some European countries which are wealthy – people die of hunger on the streets. In the summer, they die of heat on the streets. In the winter, they die of cold on the streets. A large part of wealth in such countries belongs to a small group of people. The rest have to sweat hard in order to find sustenance and stay alive. Yet those who do not have that capability, well they should live on the streets! Therefore, it is against justice. This is related to the affairs of their own countries. As for the people in other countries, they display injustice as much as they can.
“It is against freedom as well. The most important kind of freedom for a nation is the public freedom of countries – in other words, independence. When we speak about freedom, we are speaking about the freedom of nations so that they can freely do what they want to do. The Domineering system is against such freedom. One day with the colonialists, another day with the neo-colonialists, and today with modern methods – the methods used in soft wars – they create a disastrous situation for nations.”
The Leader further elaborated: “Of course, wherever necessary, they bring their armed forces to the arena and they do not have any scruples whatsoever. Presently, the Americans have entered the eastern part of the Euphrates in Syria and they say they are there for the sake of oil! Is that area your home? It belongs to another country, but they say that they have shown their presence because there is oil there and that they have come for oil! They do not feel embarrassed to acknowledge this and they say it openly.
“Or they enter a country such as Iraq without any permission. They do not seek the permission of the government of that country and they do not go to the capital, rather they go to their own bases because they have some bases there! This signifies that they officially insult the freedom and independence of nations. So, the Domineering System is both anti-justice and anti-freedom.
“Islam is the flag-bearer of justice and freedom. Islam is the flag-bearer of justice. It is also the flag-bearer of freedom and it does so in an outspoken manner. Islam does not hide its claims. It confronts oppression and injustice in an outspoken manner. At the start of the Islamic Revolution, when the Americans were in contention with the Revolution and when they had imposed sanctions and created many problems for us – amid all those events – the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan. On that day, Imam Khomeini made a declaration against the Soviet Union and if I remember correctly, he had the Soviet ambassador in Tehran summoned to the Foreign Minister, which on behalf of the Imam, asked them: why they had entered Afghanistan?
“In those days, everyone in the world would say, “You are in confrontation with the US, and you should not confront that other power (that is the Soviet Union)!” The Imam did not believe in such a jargon. I was President of the country then and I used to participate in international meetings where the representatives of both the US and the Soviet representative. And they were against each other, but we used to slam them both – both the US and the Soviet Union, without any considerations. Islam is this. Original Islam is like this.”
Ayatollah Khamenei: “Those who claim to be Muslim but are prepared to surrender to the arrogant represented by either global capitalism or global socialism – which used to exist in those days – are distant from Islam. Islam is manifestly against Global Arrogance. In other words, it advocates justice and freedom. Thus, confrontations, struggles and conflicts naturally exist.
“Of course, military confrontations do not exist due to certain reasons and so much the better, but there are all other sorts of other confrontations. Conflicts in every area are definitive according to certain conditions, but what is important is that Islam opposes the Domineering System, no matter in which area and in which form. This is because of the orientation of Islam, as I already explained. When Islam manifests itself in the form of a political system, a government and a power with a nation that has an administration, an army and the armed forces, and in general when it enjoys real capabilities and universities and emerges as the Islamic Republic, the enmity of the Domineering System increase a hundred fold!”
“The enmity of the Domineering System towards such and such an Islamic party in a certain country is not comparable to its enmity towards the Islamic Republic of Iran, which is an already well-established and powerful political system that enjoys depth, that has all necessary apparatuses and that has the power to express itself, to exert influence and to show its presence and influence in all parts of the world. It is a system that is managing 80-plus million people. Therefore, their enmity towards this system is an extraordinary enmity. If someone ignores this truth, they are making a mistake in their political calculations. It is such a truth.
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