Raisi: Enmity toward Iran due to its support for Palestinians
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi said the animosity toward the Islamic Revolution is due to the Islamic Republic’s support for the rights of the oppressed Palestinians.
The enemies’ animosity toward the Iranian nation, the 1979 Islamic Revolution, the Islamic establishment and late top anti-terror commander Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani is due to the fact that the Islamic Republic as well as Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei attach special importance to the rights of the oppressed Palestinians, Raisi told people in the northwestern city of Zanjan on Saturday.
Raisi said the late founder of the Islamic Republic, Imam Khomeini, brought up the issue of supporting the Palestinian cause and stressed the need for the liberation of the holy city of Al-Quds and elimination of the Israeli regime as a cancerous tumor more than four decades ago.
Iran’s “insistence on the legitimacy of Palestine after four decades has become clear to the whole world,” he said.
Raisi said that while the Iranian people’s support for the Palestinians has generated enmity and verbal attacks against them over the past four decades, they have remained steadfast in their backing.
“During these four decades, the enemy created enmity with the Iranian nation. It sanctioned and threatened, imposed an economic blockade, and waged enmity of various kinds, but the Iranian nation won in this war of wills,” he said.
The president said the enemies, in spite of numerous attempts and threats, have miserably failed in their anti-Iran plots, while young Iranian specialists have acquired and employed cutting-edge technologies.
“They thought they could get us away from the nuclear industry, but they couldn’t. It was the same in the military industry, but many great works have been done and many works are in progress.”
He said that the Israeli regime will definitely disappear despite all the unconditional support it receives from global arrogant powers.
“The fake Zionist regime, which draws support from the global arrogant powers, will certainly disappear. Injustice and oppression can never last forever, and this is a divine pledge. What will last is justice,” he said.
“This is the emphasis of our religion and our policy is to defend the oppressed people of the world,” Raisi said.