[[{"content_id":421674,"content_number":0,"portal_id":2,"lang_id":"en","content_title":"Ayatollah Khamenei: Days of foreign domination that enemies seek are gone forever","content_rtitr":"","content_short_title":null,"content_summary":"Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Mojtaba Khamenei says the days of foreign domination that Iran’s enemies seek to bring back are over and will never return.","content_summary_fill":1,"content_body":"The Leader made the remark in a message on Monday on the occasion of the Sacred Defense Week, which marks the start of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein's 1980-88 war on the country, and the second anniversary of the assassination of late Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nAyatollah Khamenei said that in those days, two seas in southern Iran were once like a "playground" for enemy forces, but they no longer venture beyond the Arabian Sea given the painful blows they have received from brave Iranian fighters and the defenders of the Strait of Hormuz.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nThe Leader added that whenever they took the risk of doing so, they suffered damage themselves, emphasizing that it will not be long before the Arabian Sea, too, is cleared of their presence.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nDuring the Sacred Defense days, “the warm rays of the Revolution’s sun shining across Iran spread a pleasant sense of national solidarity and loyalty to the school and path of revolutionary Islam,” which began to melt the “ice of old and new forms of domination and colonialism.”\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n“But the days before that were dark days,” he said, saying that ambassadors of the arrogant powers would convey their orders to the Iranian monarch, who would implement them willingly or unwillingly.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nThe 1979 Islamic Revolution overturned that order, he highlighted.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n“This was extremely difficult for the powers that sought domination and had set their sights on the wealth of this land, and which for years had committed various injustices against its people in an effort to make those resources their own,” added Ayatollah Khamenei.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nHence, the enemies “devoted all their efforts to turning the powerful current of the revolutionary nation back toward its previous course,” and the war launched by Saddam Hussein was their “most important action” during the first decade of the life of the Islamic Republic.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nThe Baathist regime had this “illusion that it would be a war of only a few days and would bring an easy victory”; however, Iran “rose like a phoenix, more mature and stronger than before.”\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nThe Leader noted that at the beginning of the war, Iran had “inherited empty hands” of the Western-backed monarch and possessed little to defend the country against threats.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n“But thanks to upholding the truth and divine assistance, we have now reached days when the aggressors themselves, rather than their proxies, seek shelter from the attacks of the Islamic military forces and plead for an end to the war,” he said.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nAyatollah Khamenei noted that enemies wish to “return our country were days of backwardness, humiliation and degradation, dependence, and Iran’s disrepute in the Islamic world.”\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n“The days we are living through now, however, are filled with progress, dignity, independence and the highest level of prestige in the Islamic world and, indeed, throughout the world,” he added.\r\n\r\n ","content_html":"

The Leader made the remark in a message on Monday on the occasion of the Sacred Defense Week, which marks the start of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein's 1980-88 war on the country, and the second anniversary of the assassination of late Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n

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Ayatollah Khamenei said that in those days, two seas in southern Iran were once like a "playground" for enemy forces, but they no longer venture beyond the Arabian Sea given the painful blows they have received from brave Iranian fighters and the defenders of the Strait of Hormuz.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n

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The Leader added that whenever they took the risk of doing so, they suffered damage themselves, emphasizing that it will not be long before the Arabian Sea, too, is cleared of their presence.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n

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During the Sacred Defense days, “the warm rays of the Revolution’s sun shining across Iran spread a pleasant sense of national solidarity and loyalty to the school and path of revolutionary Islam,” which began to melt the “ice of old and new forms of domination and colonialism.”<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n

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“But the days before that were dark days,” he said, saying that ambassadors of the arrogant powers would convey their orders to the Iranian monarch, who would implement them willingly or unwillingly.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n

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The 1979 Islamic Revolution overturned that order, he highlighted.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n

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“This was extremely difficult for the powers that sought domination and had set their sights on the wealth of this land, and which for years had committed various injustices against its people in an effort to make those resources their own,” added Ayatollah Khamenei.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n

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Hence, the enemies “devoted all their efforts to turning the powerful current of the revolutionary nation back toward its previous course,” and the war launched by Saddam Hussein was their “most important action” during the first decade of the life of the Islamic Republic.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n

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The Baathist regime had this “illusion that it would be a war of only a few days and would bring an easy victory”; however, Iran “rose like a phoenix, more mature and stronger than before.”<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n

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The Leader noted that at the beginning of the war, Iran had “inherited empty hands” of the Western-backed monarch and possessed little to defend the country against threats.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n

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“But thanks to upholding the truth and divine assistance, we have now reached days when the aggressors themselves, rather than their proxies, seek shelter from the attacks of the Islamic military forces and plead for an end to the war,” he said.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n

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Ayatollah Khamenei noted that enemies wish to “return our country were days of backwardness, humiliation and degradation, dependence, and Iran’s disrepute in the Islamic world.”<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n

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“The days we are living through now, however, are filled with progress, dignity, independence and the highest level of prestige in the Islamic world and, indeed, throughout the world,” he added.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n

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