Leader urges Muslim elites to push for cutting ties with Israel
Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei said the elites of the Muslim world shoulder a heavy responsibility vis-à-vis the ongoing developments in Gaza and should create a public demand to cut relations with the Israeli regime.
Speaking at a meeting with a group of commanders and personnel of the Iranian Air Force and Army’s Air Defense Force in Tehran on Monday, Ayatollah Khamenei cautioned against “humanitarian catastrophes” unfolding in Gaza following US support for the Israeli regime, Press TV reported.
He stated that nations are capable of pressing their governments to end their support for the Israeli regime.
Although this “cruel and wolflike” regime has taken the lives of women, children and the sick and killed more than 27,000 people, some Muslim countries still provide it with economic aid and even weapons, the Leader noted.
“A decisive blow does not mean going to war with the Zionist regime (Israel), but it means cutting off economic relations with it,” he said.
Elsewhere in his remarks, the Leader warned of the enemy’s “specific plot” against Iranian elites inside and outside the country, saying the enemy primarily seeks to prevent the elites’ growing role in the country and raise doubts among them.
He urged Iranian elites to thwart the enemy’s plots aimed at raising doubts in the country.
Ayatollah Khamenei asserted that national power boosts national security, saying that the enemy’s plots will be neutralized when it witnesses the Iranian people’s presence and preparedness as well as the Islamic establishment’s power.
He added that the elites can play a major role in high-turnout parliamentary elections on March 1, whose outcomes, he contended, would boost national might.
He further said the elites’ negligence toward their duties would lead to a devastating blow to the Iranian nation.