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Iran advancing despite many challenges: Leader
“The shortages and problems across the country are many, but the nation, day by day, with perseverance, sincerity, goodness, and pursuit of justice, creates honor and strength for Islam and Iran, and by God’s grace, the country is moving, striving, and advancing,” Ayatollah Khamenei said at a ceremony marking the birth anniversary of Fatima al-Zahra (PBUH), the daughter of Islam’s Prophet Muhammad (PBUH).
The Leader touched on a “broad media and propaganda campaign” against Iran after the June military aggression by Israel and the US against Iran.
“Today, beyond the military clashes we have witnessed, we are in the center of a propaganda and media war with a broad enemy front,” he said. “The enemy has realized that this property, land, and spiritual homeland cannot be subdued and occupied through military pressure.”
Ayatollah Khamenei said the enemy’s “line, danger, and goal” was to erase the effects, goals, and concepts of the Islamic Revolution.
The US, the Leader said, was “at the center of this wide and active front,” with some European countries surrounding it and domestic mercenaries and traitors residing in Europe seeking personal gain on the periphery.
He noted that resisting Western media campaigns was “difficult but entirely possible.”
Highlighting Iranian resilience, Ayatollah Khamenei said: “The people of Iran, through national resistance, have thwarted ongoing efforts by the enemy to change the religious, historical, and cultural identity of the nation.”
He cited provocations and propaganda by Western media actors and political-military leaders as instances of the enemy’s propaganda pressure, noting that the pressure was often aimed at “territorial expansion, — like what the US does in Latin America — control of underground resources, changing lifestyles, and, most importantly, identity transformation.”
The Leader also reflected on a century of foreign attempts to undermine Iran’s identity.