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Leader urges safeguarding national unity amid US-Israeli aggression
“The blind scheme and plot of the enemy — following the imposed war, economic pressure, and propaganda and siege — is to sow discord and social fragmentation in order to compensate for its defeats on the military field and bring the nation to its knees,” Ayatollah Seyyed Mojtaba Khamenei said in a message on Thursday, Press TV reported.
The message came on the anniversary of the first session of the Islamic Consultative Assembly — Iran’s Parliament — which was officially inaugurated on May 28, 1980.
The Leader described the Islamic Consultative Assembly as "the essence of the nation, the manifestation of religious democracy, and the pillar of law and legislation in the Islamic Republic," saying it plays a vital role in exercising the will of the people.
Noting that three months have passed since the "third Sacred Defense," Ayatollah Khamenei said the Iranian people's inner character and essence, "in faith, hope, and action", has been proven to both friends and foes.
He was referring to the US-Israeli aggression on Iran that began on February 28 and came to a halt on April 8 following Iran’s strong retaliatory attacks against US and Israeli bases across the region during forty days of defense.
“The seat of a representative is considered a frontline trench of transformation on the path of the country's progress,” he said, urging parliamentarians to devote their full capacity, and to be in full coordination with the administration while preserving legislative independence towards the goal.
He listed the priorities as “reconstructing the country, resolving the people's concerns — especially economic and livelihood issues — boosting production and employment, advancing science and industry, elevating culture and ethics, fighting financial corruption, curbing inflation and high prices, and realizing total eradication of poverty.”
On that basis, he said, parliamentary legislation “must have a direct and visible relationship with the country's main issues and the needs of the people, and must be oriented toward creating hope and building the country's future.”