IRAN MUSLIM CLERIC HATE!
Iranian cleric: 'Jews have had access to genies since Davidic times'
Cleric
claims in televised interview that Israel was able to eliminate Hassan
Nasrallah by employing the aid of supernatural creatures and advanced
technologies the Jews have supposedly had for 3,000 years.
Sep 30, 2024
Israel National News
As
Israel continues to demonstrate impressive intelligence capabilities by
eliminating much of the leadership of the Hezbollah terrorist
organization, some of its enemies are reportedly attributing
supernatural powers to the Jewish State.
Iranian
opposition news site Iran International published a recording from a
televised interview given by an Iranian cleric close to the Ayatollah's
regime accusing the Jewish people of trapping and employing djinn, or
genies, for three thousand years, as well as using science fiction
technology.
Iranian
Shia seminary teacher Mostafa Karami claimed, "Considering the
Zionists' history of subjugating genies, they carry out many of their
missions through this means, and demons are their secret army."
"They
[the Jews] have had access to genies and cosmic science since the time
of David and Solomon," he added. "Historically, they have always used
genies, their documents and traditions proved that. They have used
genies and demons for warfare and intelligence operations throughout
history."
Karami
detailed his magical conspiracy theory in response to the elimination
of Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah last week.
There
have been varying reports in the media as to how Nasrallah was located
prior to his elimination in Beirut. According to some Arabic media
reports, he shook the hand of someone who placed a substance on his
hand that allowed Israel to track him. Meanwhile, Western media has
attributed the tracking of the Hezbollah leader's location to more
mundane old-fashioned intelligence work.
Powerful Iranian cleric killed in attack at bank
Payam DOOST MOHAMADI
Wed, April 26, 2023
AFP
A
powerful Iranian cleric, a member of the Assembly of Experts that
selects the country's supreme leader, has been killed in an armed
attack, officials said Wednesday.
The attack is believed to be the most significant in years against a cleric in Iran.
"Ayatollah
Abbas Ali Soleimani was killed this morning in an armed attack... the
assailant was also arrested and is now being investigated," IRNA news
agency reported, citing a security official for the northern province
of Mazandaran where the killing occurred.
The attack took place inside a bank in Babolsar city, the official said.
"The motive of the assailant is not yet clear and will be announced after it is clarified," the official added.
The governor of Mazandaran, Mahmoud Hosseinipour, said the attacker was a local security officer of the bank.
"So
far, our information and documents indicate that this was not a
security or terrorist act," Hosseinipour told state television, adding
that "the assailant did not know the ayatollah."
CCTV
camera footage released by Tasnim news agency showed the security
guard, wearing a blue and white jacket, shooting the cleric from behind
as he was sitting in a chair at the bank.
Following
the killing, Iranian Prosecutor General Mohammad Jafar Montazeri
ordered provincial authorities to "investigate the issue from different
angles, do the necessary follow-ups and report the results."
Soleimani, 75, was previously a representative of the country's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
He
had also been the imam who led the weekly Friday prayers in the cities
of Kashan, in Isfahan province, and Zahedan in the southeastern
province of Sistan-Baluchistan.
Under
the constitution, the 88-strong Assembly of Experts is mandated with
supervising, dismissing and electing the Supreme Leader.
The all-powerful deliberative body is now headed by ultra-conservative 96-year-old cleric Ahmad Jannati.
Its
members are chosen in popular elections for eight year-terms from a
pool of candidates vetted by the country's Guardian Council.
- Previous attacks on clerics -
In
April 2022, a suspected jihadist knife attack in the northeastern
shrine city of Mashhad in Razavi Khorasan Province led to death of two
clerics and injury of another.
The
chief suspect, identified as Abdolatif Moradi, 21, was an ethnic Uzbek
who had entered Iran illegally via the Pakistani border a year earlier,
Tasnim news agency said at the time.
Moradi was hanged in June in the same city on the accusation of "moharebeh", or "war against God".
The
assailant struck on the third day of the holy month of Ramadan as large
crowds of worshippers gathered at the shrine of Imam Reza, one of the
most revered figures in Shiite Islam.
The
attack in Mashhad came days after two Sunni clerics were shot dead
outside a seminary in the northern Iranian town of Gonbad-e Kavus.
Senior Cleric In Iran
Says 'Secular' Coronavirus Was Made By West To Weaken Islam
Radio Farda
May 11, 2020
The head of the "Academy of Islamic
Sciences" in Iran Mohammad Mehdi Mirbaqeri, says
there has been excessive exaggeration about the dangers of the novel
coronavirus, and that is an "enemy plot".
Speaking to the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps
(IRGC)-linked Fars News Agency on Saturday, May 9, he cited unidentified
analysts as saying that the coronavirus was a "secular virus" that
"attacks religious institutions".
The senior Shiite cleric, who is also a member
of the powerful Assembly of Experts, described the deadly outbreak as a war on
"religious civilization" and accused Western countries of creating
the virus.
Earlier, the Islamic Republic Supreme Leader
Ali Khamenei had also accused the United States of producing coronavirus and
quoted "some individuals" as saying that a version of the virus had
also been made to infect Iranians.
Meanwhile, Mirbaqeri
maintained that the aim of Westerns by "creating coronavirus" was to
push people of the world into quarantine, force them to live in a "virtual
environment" and defeat the rival civilizations through dominance over the
cyberspace.
The Islamic Republic authorities have been
criticized for their handling of the health crisis by not having clear
preventive policies and are also accused of covering up the initial phase of
the epidemic.
Furthermore, they vehemently resisted to lock
down the religious city of Qom, the epicenter of the outbreak in the country.
The Academy of Islamic Sciences, presided by
Ayatollah Mirbaqeri, is also located in the city of
Qom, where Chinese Muslims studying at Shiite seminaries might have brought the
novel coronavirus to Iran.
Iranian hardline
cleric slams UNICEF as ‘enemy of Islam’
Arab News
April 25, 2020
UNICEF provides humanitarian and developmental aid to children worldwide
DUBAI:
An Iranian cleric has accused the US of using the United Nations International
Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) as a tool to target Iran, Persian media
Radio Farda reported on Monday.
Cleric
Ali Shirazi, who is affiliated with the country’s Quds Force, called on
Iranians to boycott the UN agency, which provides humanitarian and
developmental aid to children worldwide.
In
a note carried by Iranian news agency Tasnim, Shirazi
singled out a fourth-grade textbook referencing UNICEF activities, and slammed
authorities who allowed for its publication.
The
enemies of Islam are pursuing their own aims through international and public
educational institutions,” the hardliner stressed.
Shirazi,
who was appointed by Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said the US
“aims at turning the Islamic lifestyle into a western way of life,” and uses
topics such as human rights advocacy or women’s rights as an excuse.
Iran Cleric
Blames Trump For Coronavirus Outbreak In Religious City
February 22, 2020
The Friday Prayer Imam of the religious city
of Qom, the epicenter of coronavirus outbreak in Iran, told his congregation
Saturday that U.S. President Donald Trump targeted the city with coronavirus
"to damage its culture and honor".
Most of the coronavirus cases in Iran include
people living in Qom and those who have visited the religious city recently.
These cases have no clear epidemiological link to the outbreak in China.
Qom is the religious capital of Iran, home to
many seminaries and the Shrine of Masoumeh and a bastion for hardliners. The
city's economy revolves around the Shrine which thousands of pilgrims from Iran
and other countries visit every day.
According to social media users after two
deaths were reported in Qom on Thursday the usually crowded streets of the city
look abandoned.
Speaking during evening prayers Hojjat ol-Eslam Seyyed Mohammad Saeedi who is
also the Custodian of the Shrine of Masoumeh said Trump has targeted the city
because Qom is a "shelter for the Shiites of the world, the center of
religious seminaries and the city where Shiite sources of emulation live".
"The enemy wants to instill fear in
people's hearts, make Qom look like an unsafe city and to take revenge for all
its defeats," the Friday Prayer leader said. "Trump will die
frustrated in his wish to see Qom defeated," he went on to tell his
congregation.
Iranian officials and clerics often make wild
accusations against the U.S., Israel and other countries which have
disagreements with the Islamic Republic.
According to Saeedi,
by targeting Qom Trump is fulfilling his promise of hitting Iranian cultural
sites if Iranians took revenge for the U.S. killing of Qods
Force Commander Qassem Soleimani.
Trump had threatened in a January 4
tweet that the U.S. will target "52 Iranian sites … some
at a very high level and important to Iran and the Iranian culture, and those
targets, and Iran itself, will be hit very fast and very hard."
'Beat her in a
way that doesn't turn her skin red': Visiting Islamic preacher from Iran tells
Sydney mosque audience it's OK for a husband to bash his wife
• Visiting Iranian Shia cleric Sheikh Taleb
al-Khozaei justified domestic violence
• He was a guest speaker at Hussainayet
Ale Yassin Mosque in western Sydney
• The imam said husbands could beat their wives as a 'last
resort' citing Koran
• Mosque founder and manager Ali Soorat
condemned the sermon's message
By Stephen Johnson For Daily Mail Australia
PUBLISHED: 22:19 EDT, 16 October 2017
A visiting Islamic preacher from Iran told a Sydney mosque it is okay for a
husband to beat his wife as long as he doesn't leave any red marks.
Sheikh Taleb al-Khozaei, a
Shia cleric aligned with the Iranian theocracy, was a guest lecturer at the Hussainayet Ale Yassin Mosque at Sefton, in Sydney's west.
In an Arabic language sermon, he said it was permissible for husbands to
lightly beat their wives 'as a last resort' if they had been disobedient.
The western Sydney mosque which organised the visit
has condemned that sermon promoting domestic violence and has vowed to bar him
from returning.
Citing verse 4.34 of the Koran, Sheikh al-Khozaei
said husbands could abandon their wives if they had been disobedient.
'He must beat her only enough to bring her back home if she leaves,' he said in
a June sermon that was live streamed.
'He must beat her in a way that doesn't turn the skin red or dark.'
He then proceeded to explain how husbands could abandon their wives in the
bedroom.
'The first method is through advice, the second method is by abandoning them in
the bedroom by turning his back towards her at night or sleeping in another
place,' he said.
'The woman has honour, therefore by abandoning her
you are humiliating her by making her feel that she has made a mistake by not
serving her husband's rights.'
Sheikh Taleb al-Khozaei's
fundamentalist sermon also described the method of beating 'as a last resort'.
'Here, beating takes place. But which type of beating? Don't get me wrong,' he
said.
'Islam is not a terrorist religion. The beating that doesn't cause an affect
and is not a beating for revenge.'
His sermon was based on section 4.34 of the Koran which advises husbands to
abandon their disobedient wives.
'Admonish them, and leave them alone in the sleeping-places and beat them,' it
says.
The Hussainayet Ale Yassin Mosque denounced the
sermon promoting domestic violence.
'We don't condone it and in our community we don't accept hitting of any kind,'
it told Daily Mail Australia in a statement on Tuesday.
'I didn't know that he was going to say something like that and after he
finished his speech I did tell him that he shouldn't have said it.
'Because of that we are not inviting him back anymore.
'I also was going to take that video of off website but I had forgotten about
it, thanks for the reminder.'
In February, Islamic Friendship Association of Australia founder Keysar Trad told Sky News presenter Andrew Bolt husbands
could lightly beat their wives after trying to reconcile with flowers or a box
of chocolates.
'This verse is saying really, is playing on the psychology of the man saying
violence is a last resort,' he said, before apologising
a few days later.
Two months later, Women of Hizb ut-Tahrir
made a video describing domestic violence as a 'beautiful blessing'.
Sydney primary school teacher Reem Allouche told the
women's arm of hardline Islamist political group Hizb
ut-Tahrir that men could hit women with sticks,
during a 30-minute discussion in Sydney's west with fellow panellist
Atika Latifi.
Iran Supreme Leader calls
on Palestinians to pursue intifada against Israel
Feb 21, 2017
Reuters
Iran’s Supreme Leader
called on Palestinians on Tuesday to pursue an uprising against Israel,
suggesting the Israeli government was a "cancerous tumor" that should
be confronted until Palestinians were completely liberated.
"... by Allah’s
permission, we will see that this intifada will begin a very important chapter
in the history of fighting and that it will inflict another defeat on that
usurping regime," Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said, according to his website.
The Supreme Leader’s
bellicose comments, made during a two-day conference in Tehran focused on its
support for the Palestinians, come at a time of increasingly heated rhetoric
between Iran, Israel and the United States.
While on a visit to
Washington last week, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Fox News
that Israel and the United States had a "grand mission" to confront
the threat of a nuclear Iran.
U.S. President Donald
Trump has already been highly critical of a deal hammered out between Iran and
world powers, including the United States, in 2015 intended to partially lift
sanctions on Tehran in exchange for curbs on its nuclear program.
Iran says its program is
for purely peaceful means.
When Iran carried out a
ballistic missile test in late January, Trump’s then national security adviser
Mike Flynn said the administration was putting Iran "on notice".
Ordinary Iranians have
been posting their concerns about a possible military confrontation between
Iran and the United States on social media.
Khamenei did not mention
any Iranian military attack against Israel in his comments on Tuesday and was
focused on gains that Palestinians could make in any confrontation with Israel,
which he described as tumor developing into "the current disaster".
"The Palestinian
intifada continues to gallop forward in a thunderous manner so that it can
achieve its other goals until the complete liberation of Palestine," he
said, according to the transcript of the speech posted on his website.
‘Behead, Burn, And Crush
Gays’ Islamic Preacher To Deliver 10 Days Of Lectures In London
A Islamic preacher who
has referred to non-Muslims as “kuffar” and preached on how to kill homosexuals
is due to deliver a set of nightly lectures at an Iranian government-backed organisation in London, Breitbart London can reveal.
Breitbart.com
October 3, 2016
Shaykh Hamza Sodagar – who gained notoriety earlier this year for his
lecture on “one of five” ways to kill homosexuals – is due to speak at the
Islamic Republic of Iran School in north-west London between October 4th –
12th.
According to a speaker
biography, Mr. Sodagar regards himself as a “role
model” for “young Muslims all around the world”. A recent video of the preacher
features Mr. Sodagar stating:
“If there’s homosexual
men, the punishment is one of five things. One – the easiest one maybe – chop
their head off, that’s the easiest. Second – burn them to death. Third – throw
’em off a cliff. Fourth – tear down a wall on them so
they die under that. Fifth – a combination of the above”.
As noted in 2014, he has
also claimed Europeans and Americans are controlled by a “Zionist web of media
is trying to control the minds of the people”.
The event is being organised by a group called the Ahlulbayt
Islamic Mission, which also hosted Mr. Sodagar in
2014. The Stand for Peace organisation notes that Ahlulbayt is a pro-Iranian regime group.
The group advertises “tours”
of Iraq and Iran on its website, as well as organising
“swimming for brothers” – swimming events catering solely for men and children
– at a local pool in north London.
Iranian women's clothing
‘causing rivers to run dry’, says senior cleric
Seyyed Youssef Tabatabi-nejad
criticised over claim women's European-style dress is
having an impact on the local environment
Harriet Sinclair
Saturday 11 June 2016
Independent
Immorality among women is
causing a river in Iran to dry up, according to a senior cleric from the
Islamic Republic
Seyyed Youssef Tabatabi-nejad,
who leads Friday prayers in Isfahan, encouraged the country’s morality police
to crack down on ‘improper veiling’ and suggested women’s immodest clothing was
having an impact on the environment.
In a sermon this week, he
said: “My office has received photos of women next to the dry Zayandeh-rud River pictured as if they are in Europe. It is
these sorts of acts that cause the river to dry up even further,” ISNA News
Agency reported.
“I tell the
Communications Ministry to clamp down on the instigators of the networks
encouraging immodesty. If you don’t do so, then you will have failed to carry
out your duty. The Communications Ministry can discover and suffocate these
individuals.
“If we see a sin it’s
useless that we only bicker about it. The police force can use the
[paramilitary] Hezbollahi forces in carrying out
their operations to root out vice,” he added.
His comments come
following an increase in the number of morality police in Iran and subsequent
crackdown on women failing to veil correctly, playing music too loudly in their
cars or acting in a way that is perceived to be un-Islamic by the authorities.
Imam Tabatabi-nejad’s
comments have been criticised by the National Council
of Resistance of Iran, with a member of the group’s foreign affairs committee, Afchine Alavi, commenting: “This
reflects the typical mindset of the theocratic regime ruling Iran which is no
different to the culture of Daesh (Isis).
“Misogyny is a
cornerstone of this mindset. The regime’s increasing isolation with each
passing day results in more brutal methods of suppression being employed by the
regime.”
The imam has previously
made comments that women should stay at home while men work, as well as
previously condoning violence against women who do not adhere to the country’s
dress code, Iran Wire reported.
Cleric defends medieval
punishments and decrees opposing Khamenei is 'evil'
Details Published on Tuesday, 09 April 2013
NCRI - Opposing the views
of Iranian regime's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei is 'blasphemous and evil' a
high-ranking regime cleric has decreed.
Mohammad Taghi Mesbah Yazdi - a member of
powerful Assembly of Experts - also defended medieval punishment including
being hurled off a cliff, stoning, public hanging, mutilation, taking out eyes,
juvenile execution and torture.
Yazdi said in a speech: "If
anyone rejects the verdict of the Supreme Leader who has been chosen by Imams,
he is actually rejecting the words of those who have been chosen by God.
"Based on the
commands of the Imams, opposing the Supreme Leader is profanity towards God,
and God forbid if this shortcoming is for personal gains.
"Those who have
studied in our religious schools believe that ...punishment verdicts cannot be
carried out in the modern era. This kind of belief is blasphemy and the beliefs
of these people is evil."
Full
text of Supreme Leader's message to Hajj pilgrims
Islamic Republic
News Agency
Tehran January 9,
2006
The Supreme Leader of
the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei
on Monday stressed the perpetrators of crimes in Guantanamo, Abu Ghuraib and clandestine prisons in Europe have no right to
speak of human rights.
The Supreme Leader made
the remark in his message to the Hajj pilgrims, which was read by his
representative for Hajj affairs, Hojjatoleslam
Mohammad Mohammadi Reyshahri
during the disavowal of pagans ceremony held in Arafat
Desert on Monday.
The full text of the
Supreme Leader's message reads as follows:
"In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful,
"So when you have performed your devotions, then laud Allah as you lauded
your fathers, rather a greater lauding" (2: 200)
"Dear Muslim brothers and sisters:
"The Hajj season is an occasion for hope and good tidings. On the one
hand, the magnificence of solidarity among the travelers of the House of Unity
raises hope in the hearts, and on the other, the refreshing of the souls
through the blessing of the divine lauding gives the good tiding of the
unbolting of gates of mercy.
"After the
pilgrims have performed the rituals of Hajj, which are full of secrets and are
brimful of lauding and humbleness, once again they are called to laud Allah.
The reason for this stress is that lauding of Allah illuminates the saddened
hearts, raising hope and granting light of faith to them. Once the heart is
hopeful and faithful, it enables man to properly go through the slippery and
challenging bottlenecks of life to reach the summits of material and spiritual
perfection.
"The spirituality
of Hajj lies in this very celebration of the praise of Allah which has been
incorporated in each and every Hajj ritual.
"This auspicious
spring must continue to simmer after the Hajj season and this accomplishment
should go on.
"In different
fields of life man is a victim of his own negligence. Where there is negligence
there is also ethical degeneration, intellectual distortion and spiritual
decline. And it is this very degeneration that on its turn can cause the defeat
of the nations and disintegration of the civilizations besides the destruction
of the personality of individual human beings.
"Hajj is one of
the best means of Islam for the elimination of negligence. As if the
universality of this ritual imparts the message that the Muslim Ummah in their
collective identity, besides the individual duty of every Muslim, are
duty-bound to remove negligence from themselves.
"The rites and
rituals of Hajj provide us with an opportunity to temporarily give up servitude
to and neglectful dependence on hedonism, caprice and comfort. The ihram
(pilgrim's garb), tawaf (circumambulation), prayers, sa'i
and woquf fill us with the celebration of the praise
of Allah and bring us closer to the divine sanctorum, embedding the joy of acquaintance
with Allah in our hearts.
"On the other
hand, the glory and grandeur of this unique congregation acquaints us with the
reality of the great Islamic Ummah, which transcends the nations, races, colors
and languages. This intertwined and harmonic congregation, these tongues all
chanting a single word, these bodies and hearts all marching towards a single
Qibla and these human beings representing tens of countries and nations all
belong to a great unit and collection, that is, the Islamic Ummah.
"As a matter of fact the Islamic Ummah has lived in negligence for a long
time. Today's scientific and practical backwardness and inferiority in the
fields of politics, industry and economy are the bitter fruits of the said
negligence. Now, in the light of astonishing developments that have emerged or
are emerging in the world, the Islamic Ummah must make up for the past
negligence. Fortunately, some of the phenomena of the contemporary era point to
the beginning of this compensating move.
"There should be
no doubt that the world of arrogance considers the awakening of the Muslims,
Islamic unity, and progress of our nations in the fields of science, politics
and innovation the greatest obstacle in the way of its international domination
and hegemony and will confront them by all means. Our Muslim nations have the
experience of colonialism and neocolonialism in front of them. Now, during the
period of postmodern colonialism we should take lessons from those experiences
and should not once again allow the enemy to dominate our destiny for a long
time.
"During those
bitter, black periods, the dominant Western powers employed all cultural,
economic, political and military means to weaken the Muslim nations and
countries and imposed disunity, poverty and ignorance on them. The negligence,
laziness and indolence of many of our political figures and the
irresponsibility of many cultural elites helped them and the result was the
plunder of our wealth, humiliation and even denial of our identity and
obliteration of our independence. We, the Muslim nations, grew weaker day by
day while the expansionist, hegemonic plunderers became stronger and stronger
day by day.
"Thanks to the
devotion of courageous strugglers and sincerity of the leaders in some parts of
the Islamic world the waves of Islamic awakening are now spreading and the
youth, elite and masses of many Islamic countries have been brought to the
scene, exposing the bullying face of the domineering powers for many Muslim
politicians and rulers. Hence once again the imperialist leaders are after new
ploys to perpetuate and consolidate their domination over the Islamic world.
The slogan of advocacy of human rights and democracy is one of those ploys.
"Today, the Great
Satan - the embodiment of evil and cruelty against mankind - has hoisted the
banner of advocacy of human rights and invites the Middle Eastern nations to
democracy. The democracy the US advocates for these countries means the
installation of some timid, obedient lackeys through plot, bribery, and deceptive
propaganda in an apparently popular, but inherently, American election, who
will be the US agents in the realization of the nasty imperialistic objectives.
"Top on the agenda
of these objectives is the suppression of Islamist wave and isolation of Islamic
values. All the propaganda and political means of the United States and other
hegemonic powers are at work today to postpone and if possible
suppress the Islamic awakening movement.
"The Muslim
nations must be completely wakeful and vigilant today. The ulema, religious
leaders, intellectuals, academics, writers, poets, artists, the youth and the
elite all through wakeful and timely action must not allow the world-devouring
US to begin a new period of colonial domination over the Islamic World.
"The slogan of
democratization is not accepted from the hegemonic powers that for many years
have been the supporters of dictatorial regimes in Asia, Africa and the
Americas.
"The claim of
campaign against terrorism and violence is abominating when made by the
promoters of Zionist terrorism and perpetrators of harshest kinds of violence
in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The claim of advocacy
of civil rights by the devils, who have always praised and encouraged the
crimes of a bloodsucking terrorist like Sharon against the oppressed
Palestinians, is merely a blameworthy deception.
"The perpetrators
of crimes in Guantanoma, Abu Ghuraib
and clandestine prisons in Europe, the humiliators of the Iraqi and Palestinian
nations and the promoters of the groups that in the name of Islam consider it
permissible to shed the blood of Muslims in Iraq and Afghanistan do not have
any right to speak of human rights.
"The American and
British governments that permit the torture and even shedding of the blood of
the accused on the streets and the eavesdropping of the telephone calls of the
citizens without a judicial verdict do not have any right to introduce
themselves as advocates of civil rights.
"The governments
that have tarnished their contemporary history through production and
employment of nuclear and chemical weapons do not have any right to consider
themselves the custodians of nuclear non-proliferation.
"Dear Muslim
brothers and sisters:
"Today, the world, particularly the Islamic World, is going through a
crucial juncture. On the one hand, the waves of awakening have permeated the
entire Islamic World, and on the other, the bullying face of the United States
and other arrogant powers has been unveiled.
"At the same time
the move towards restoration of identity and sovereignty has begun in some
parts of the Islamic World and in a country as magnificent as Iran the saplings
of indigenous knowledge and technology have yielded fruit and the
self-confidence that had transformed the social and political atmosphere in
Iran has now spilled over to the environment of science and reconstruction.
"On the other hand the cracks of weakness and decline have appeared in the
edifice of political and military permutation of the enemies.
"Today, Iraq on
the one hand and Palestine and Lebanon on the other are an exhibition of
weakness and helplessness of the US and Zionist false power. The US Middle
Eastern policy has faced great obstacles in its primary steps and the failure
of this policy has been turned into a tool against its planners.
Today is the day the
Muslim governments and nations take the initiative and a great measure.
Assisting the oppressed Palestinian nation, supporting the wakeful nation of
Iraq and safeguarding the stability and independence of Lebanon, Syria and
other countries of the region is a general duty, while the responsibility of
the political, religious, and cultural elites as well as that of the national
figures, the youth and the academics is heavier than others.
"Unity and
sympathy among the followers of the Islamic schools of thought and avoidance of
sectarian and ethnic differences should be the boldest slogan of these elites.
Scientific endeavor, political liveliness, cultural effort and mobilization of
all forces in these main arenas should be top on the anvil of their call.
"The Islamic World
does not need the flawed and frequently violated prescription of the West for
democracy and human rights; democracy is inherent in the Islamic teachings and
human rights is among the most outstanding themes of Islam. Knowledge should be
learnt from anywhere and anybody, but the Islamic World should try not to
remain a disciple for ever, rather must rely on its
own talents and efforts for innovation and production of knowledge.
"The Western
values that have led to the collapse of ethics and spread of revelry, violence,
legalization of homosexuality and other such fiascos in their countries, cannot
be followed. Islam with its sublime values is the highest source of salvation
for human beings.
The elites of the nations shoulder the responsibility of rereading and
promotion of these values.
"The blind, savage
terrorism, which is a pretext for the occupiers of Iraq to attack Islam and the
Muslims and an excuse for the perpetuation of the military occupation of this
Islamic country is rejected and condemned according to the Islamic teachings.
The prime accused of these criminal events are the US army and its intelligence
services and Israel whose immediate nasty objective is to influence the trend
of formation of government in Iraq.
"Dear Muslim
brothers and sisters:
"Trust in God, belief in the definite promise of the Quran and
consolidation of Islamic unity guarantee the accomplishment of all great
objectives of the Islamic Ummah and the Hajj, with its rich, effective essence
of celebration of the praise of Allah, and the great congregation of the
Muslims during the Hajj rituals can be the starting point and the launching pad
to march towards this comprehensive movement. And deliverance from the
polytheist and arrogant leaders in saying and action during this worship should
become a model for action and the first step in this line.
"I beseech the
Almighty God that He may grant success to the pilgrims and may the Imam of Time
pray for all the Muslims."
TEHRAN, Feb. 19 (UPI) -- Influential Muslim clerics in Iran allegedly
issued a new fatwa, or holy order, sanctioning the use of nuclear weapons
against its enemies.
It is the first time the hard-line spiritual
leaders have questioned the traditional stance that Sharia law forbade the use
of nuclear weapons, the Sunday Telegraph reported.
The newspaper said one senior mullah now says it is "only
natural" to have nuclear bombs as a "countermeasure" against
other nuclear powers, thought to be a reference to the United States and
Israel.
The pronouncement came from Mohsen Gharavian, a
disciple of the ultra-conservative Ayatollah Mohammad Taghi
Mesbah-Yazdi, who is widely regarded as the cleric
closest to Iran's new president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the newspaper said.
The comments appeared on Rooz, an Internet
newspaper run by members of Iran's fractured reformist movement, which picked
them up from remarks by Mohsen Gharavian reported on
the media agency IraNews, the newspaper said.