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Leader says all efforts should concentrate on strengthening IRGC

IRNA

Tehran, Sept 15, IRNA -- Supreme Leader of Islamic Revolution 
Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei said here on Monday that all necessary 
financial and moral means should be provided for consolidating the 
Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), which is the distinguished 
pillar of the immense building of the Islamic establishment. 
Addressing a group of senior IRGC commanders, Ayatollah Khamenei 
said that with God Almighty`s grace Iranian nation would continue to 
be prepared for resistance and perseverance against enemies. 
Ayatollah Khamenei recalled God`s irrevocable promise for absolute
victory of Muslims and said resistance against enemies would make them
disappointed in overcoming the Iranian nation. 
The Supreme Leader said the past two centuries marked efforts by 
the arrogant powers and colonialists to plunder interests and 
resources of nationals and establish an international tyrannical 
systems in global communities but Islamic Revolution of Iran derailed 
the process of pillaging by international dictatorship, sparking 
strong hostility towards Iranian nation. 
Ayatollah Khamenei said that on threshold of the victory of 
Islamic Revolution, the US and Israel tried to completely violate the 
rights of the Palestinian nation so as to put an end to the issue of 
Palestine but thanks to Iran`s Islamic Revolution, Palestinian youth 
with empty hands have brought the most ill-nature element of Zionist 
regime, i.e. the criminal Sharon, to his kneels. 
He said the Zionist regime is now badly engaged in the occupied 
lands thanks to the blessings of the Intifada. 
He added that had the greedy Zionists not been gripped with 
Intifada they would have undoubtedly acted to dominate Egypt, Syria 
and Lebanon and other Middle East states. 
Ayatollah Khamenei said the arrogant powers come across with 
problems upon invasion on any Muslim states as they do in Iraq thanks 
to the nations` Islamic vigilance. 
He added that Iranian nation is not surprised at the continued 
hostility of hegemonistic US and international Zionism as well as 
other powers that bully Islamic system. He said materialization of 
holy Quran`s prediction on continuation of the hostility has made the 
the faith of the Iranian nation stronger. 
"The invasion and hostility would continue as long as enemies have
not been disappointed; so, efforts should be made to have pessimism 
in dominating the Iranian nation cast its shadow on the enemy camp," 
said Ayatollah Khamenei. 
Elsewhere in his remarks, Ayatollah Khamenei referred to the IRGC 
as a divine gift for Iranian nation and the country`s history and said
blessings of the auspicious institution would remain everlasting both 
at present and future in Iran. 
The Ayatollah highlighted the IRGC`s success in passing difficult 
eras in the past quarter a century and said abundant and rich 
experience and a team of resistant and faithful personnel have turned 
the IRGC into a highly honorable and powerful establishment. 
The IRGC Commander General Yahya Rahim Safavi and the leadership`s
representative at the IRGC Hojatoleslam Movahedi Kermani had prior to 
the Supreme Leader`s speech voiced the IRGC`s readiness to defend 
Iranian nation and the Islamic establishment. 
216/AH/210 
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