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Thursday, January 29, 2015

To the Youth in Europe and North America!!! #Letter4u


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http://farsi.khamenei.ir/ndata/news/28731/index.html#en
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In the name of God, the Beneficent the Merciful

To the Youth in Europe and North America,

The recent events in France and similar ones in some other Western countries have convinced me to directly talk to you about them. I am addressing you, [the youth], not because I overlook your parents, rather it is because the future of your nations and countries will be in your hands; and also I find that the sense of quest for truth is more vigorous and attentive in your hearts.
I don’t address your politicians and statesmen either in this writing because I believe that they have consciously separated the route of politics from the path of righteousness and truth.
I would like to talk to you about Islam, particularly the image that is presented to you as Islam. Many attempts have been made over the past two decades, almost since the disintegration of the Soviet Union, to place this great religion in the seat of a horrifying enemy. The provocation of a feeling of horror and hatred and its utilization has unfortunately a long record in the political history of the West.
Here, I don’t want to deal with the different phobias with which the Western nations have thus far been indoctrinated. A cursory review of recent critical studies of history would bring home to you the fact that the Western governments’ insincere and hypocritical treatment of other nations and cultures has been censured in new historiographies.
The histories of the United States and Europe are ashamed of slavery, embarrassed by the colonial period and chagrined at the oppression of people of color and non-Christians. Your researchers and historians are deeply ashamed of the bloodsheds wrought in the name of religion between the Catholics and Protestants or in the name of nationality and ethnicity during the First and Second World Wars. This approach is admirable.
By mentioning a fraction of this long list, I don’t want to reproach history; rather I would like you to ask your intellectuals as to why the public conscience in the West awakens and comes to its senses after a delay of several decades or centuries. Why should the revision of collective conscience apply to the distant past and not to the current problems? Why is it that attempts are made to prevent public awareness regarding an important issue such as the treatment of Islamic culture and thought?
 

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Monday, January 26, 2015

To the Youth in Europe and North America, #Letter4u

#Letter4u
http://farsi.khamenei.ir/ndata/news/28731/index.html#en
 

In the name of God, the Beneficent the Merciful

To the Youth in Europe and North America,

The recent events in France and similar ones in some other Western countries have convinced me to directly talk to you about them. I am addressing you, [the youth], not because I overlook your parents, rather it is because the future of your nations and countries will be in your hands; and also I find that the sense of quest for truth is more vigorous and attentive in your hearts.
I don’t address your politicians and statesmen either in this writing because I believe that they have consciously separated the route of politics from the path of righteousness and truth.
I would like to talk to you about Islam, particularly the image that is presented to you as Islam. Many attempts have been made over the past two decades, almost since the disintegration of the Soviet Union, to place this great religion in the seat of a horrifying enemy. The provocation of a feeling of horror and hatred and its utilization has unfortunately a long record in the political history of the West.
Here, I don’t want to deal with the different phobias with which the Western nations have thus far been indoctrinated. A cursory review of recent critical studies of history would bring home to you the fact that the Western governments’ insincere and hypocritical treatment of other nations and cultures has been censured in new historiographies.
The histories of the United States and Europe are ashamed of slavery, embarrassed by the colonial period and chagrined at the oppression of people of color and non-Christians. Your researchers and historians are deeply ashamed of the bloodsheds wrought in the name of religion between the Catholics and Protestants or in the name of nationality and ethnicity during the First and Second World Wars. This approach is admirable.
By mentioning a fraction of this long list, I don’t want to reproach history; rather I would like you to ask your intellectuals as to why the public conscience in the West awakens and comes to its senses after a delay of several decades or centuries. Why should the revision of collective conscience apply to the distant past and not to the current problems? Why is it that attempts are made to prevent public awareness regarding an important issue such as the treatment of Islamic culture and thought?


You know well that humiliation and spreading hatred and illusionary fear of the “other” have been the common base of all those oppressive profiteers. Now, I would like you to ask yourself why the old policy of spreading “phobia” and hatred has targeted Islam and Muslims with an unprecedented intensity. Why does the power structure in the world want Islamic thought to be marginalized and remain latent? What concepts and values in Islam disturb the programs of the super powers and what interests are safeguarded in the shadow of distorting the image of Islam? Hence, my first request is: Study and research the incentives behind this widespread tarnishing of the image of Islam.
My second request is that in reaction to the flood of prejudgments and disinformation campaigns, try to gain a direct and firsthand knowledge of this religion. The right logic requires that you understand the nature and essence of what they are frightening you about and want you to keep away from.
I don’t insist that you accept my reading or any other reading of Islam. What I want to say is: Don’t allow this dynamic and effective reality in today’s world to be introduced to you through resentments and prejudices. Don’t allow them to hypocritically introduce their own recruited terrorists as representatives of Islam.
Receive knowledge of Islam from its primary and original sources. Gain information about Islam through the Qur’an and the life of its great Prophet. I would like to ask you whether you have directly read the Qur’an of the Muslims. Have you studied the teachings of the Prophet of Islam and his humane, ethical doctrines? Have you ever received the message of Islam from any sources other than the media?
Have you ever asked yourself how and on the basis of which values has Islam established the greatest scientific and intellectual civilization of the world and raised the most distinguished scientists and intellectuals throughout several centuries?
I would like you not to allow the derogatory and offensive image-buildings to create an emotional gulf between you and the reality, taking away the possibility of an impartial judgment from you. Today, the communication media have removed the geographical borders. Hence, don’t allow them to besiege you within fabricated and mental borders.
Although no one can individually fill the created gaps, each one of you can construct a bridge of thought and fairness over the gaps to illuminate yourself and your surrounding environment. While this preplanned challenge between Islam and you, the youth, is undesirable, it can raise new questions in your curious and inquiring minds. Attempts to find answers to these questions will provide you with an appropriate opportunity to discover new truths.
Therefore, don’t miss the opportunity to gain proper, correct and unbiased understanding of Islam so that hopefully, due to your sense of responsibility toward the truth, future generations would write the history of this current interaction between Islam and the West with a clearer conscience and lesser resentment.
Seyyed Ali Khamenei
21st Jan. 2015

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Wednesday, June 6, 2012

Supreme Leader Warns Enemies Against Military Action


Speaking at Imam Khomeini's (r.a.) shrine, Ayatollah Khamenei the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution said that the Zionist regime's military threats against Iran are due to its fear and frustration, further stressing: "The leaders of the Zionist regime are well aware that they are more vulnerable today than any other time and that every misstep and every inappropriate move will strike them like a thunderbolt."

The Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution referred to the conditions of the west and America and added: "Today because of their economic, financial and social problems, western governments are helpless against their own people and they are just trying to maintain appearances."
Ayatollah Khamenei said that the collapse of certain allies of America in Europe and the increasing hatred of nations towards America show that there is a serious crisis in the west. He reiterated that America is trying to divert attention towards Asia, Africa and the Middle East region by creating conflicts.
He added: "Today the Americans have turned to the experience and expertise of the English in creating religious and ethnic conflicts. For this reason, all nations, all religious scholars and all academic elites in the region - both Shia and Sunni - should take care not to contribute to the enemy's plots."
The Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution described the actions of the west and the Americans as dim-witted and stressed: "In order to cover up their problems and divert attention from the crisis they are involved in, they magnify the nuclear issue of Iran and put it at the top of global issues and they deceitfully speak about nuclear weapons."
Ayatollah Khamenei said that the efforts by the west and America will not produce any results.
His Eminence said that the enemies of the Islamic Revolution are afraid of the Iranian nation because it has made progress and turned into a role model for the nations of the region and the world. He added: "The efforts by the political communities of the world to magnify the threat posed by a nuclear Iran are based on nothing but a lie because they are afraid of an Islamic Iran, not a nuclear Iran."
Ayatollah Khamenei stressed that the Iranian nation has shaken the foundations of the arrogant powers by proving that it is possible to achieve progress without relying on America and other global powers. "America and other global powers are trying to convince nations and political elite that progress is impossible without America's support, but the Iranian nation has proven the opposite and this is a great lesson for the nations of the world."
The Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution said that over the past three decades the Iranian nation has set a record in national progress, but he cautioned: "If you feel satisfied with what you have achieved, you will definitely fail and regress. Therefore, it is necessary to continue making progress."
Addressing Iranian youth, students, government officials, religious scholars and outstanding personalities, Ayatollah Khamenei stressed: "We must continue moving towards the peaks of progress, especially in the arena of politics and science and technology, and in the arena of ethics and spirituality."
He added that nonstop movement towards the peaks of progress will render the enemies' sanctions ineffective. "The sanctions cannot stop the Iranian nation from moving forward. They will only deepen the Iranian nation's hatred of the west."
Ayatollah Khamenei added that when the Iranian nation achieves the peaks of progress, the enmities and malevolent hostilities will stop.
Elsewhere in his statements, Ayatollah Khamenei said that the Iranian nation and the Islamic Republic have presented the world with a successfully tested paradigm of progress and national dignity. "Over the past 33 years, the Iranian nation has overcome all the political, military, security and economic plots that were designed and implemented with the aim of wiping out the Islamic Republic. And this truth is one of the most important signs of the progress that the Iranian nation has made."
The Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution said that Iran's tangible influence on the regional and global developments is among other signs of the Iranian nation's undeniable progress. He added that even government officials and politicians of the Zionist regime and America have acknowledged Iran's power and influence.



Thursday, May 10, 2012

Americans unhappy with news being released

*Ashantai Hathaway, Press TV Washington

A recent poll shows that Americans are dissatisfied with the way they are receiving their news and many do not believe they are being told the entire truth when it's given.
In America there are several ways to get the news, including newspapers, TV, the Internet and magazines, the field is flooded but if the numbers are any true indication than American media has a long way to go to win the public approval.


According to a Gallup poll Americans are unhappy with the information being released from the media and Americans remain largely distrusting of the news media, with 55 percent saying they have little or no trust in the media to report the news fully, accurately, and fairly, and 60 percent said they perceive a bias one way or the other.

But perhaps worst some Americans say in the media is the growing obsession in the U.S. for gossip and tabloid news where Americans have become more aware of what's going on with the latest reality television star rather than topics like government and foreign affairs that affect them.

In fact, some believe celebrities seem to be taken over the media and many Americans are more aware of what's going on in Hollywood than what's going on in Washington. According to the Houran Team, a group of University researcher a third of Americans is obsessed with celebrities.

The same report said that one in ten was obsessed to the point of having what's referred to as "celebrity worship syndrome.

Tarpley says the only thing that may change the draw to celebrity is the down economy which forces people who are living on fixed incomes to come back to reality.

Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Anti-war organizations against attack on Iran: Veterans for Peace

President of the Veterans for Peace organization Leah Bolger
President of the Veterans for Peace organization Leah Bolger
President of the US-based Veterans for Peace Leah Bolger says many anti-war organizations are making efforts to oppose a possible military attack against Iran.


Veterans for Peace and many peace-seeking organizations are trying so hard to oppose a military attack against Iran, Bolger said in an interview with the Iranian Fars News Agency.

The former US commander said such an attack against Iran would violate international law.

Referring to the upcoming summit of NATO leaders in Chicago, Bolger said she and many of the members of the Veterans for Peace would go to Chicago to declare the veterans demand to end NATO’s mission and war.

The US, Israel and some of their allies have repeatedly accused Iran of pursuing military objectives in its nuclear program without offering any evidence corroborating such allegations.

Washington and Tel Aviv have time and again threatened Tehran with a military strike against its civilian nuclear facilities.

Iran argues that as a signatory to the Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT) and a member of the International Atomic Energy Agency, it has every right to develop and acquire nuclear technology for peaceful purposes.

Iranian officials have also promised a powerful response to any military strike against the country, warning that any such measure could result in a war that would spread beyond the Middle East.

Persian Gulf states join US-Israel plot by agreeing to missile shield: Iran cmdr.

Iranian naval commander Ali Razmjou
An Iranian naval commander warns that if the Arab countries in the Persian Gulf agree to a proposed plan by Washington for a missile shield in the region, they amateurishly join a US-Israeli plot.
 
 
 
 
 
*Iranian naval commander Ali Razmjou

Ali Razmjou warned the regional countries that cooperating with the US in the missile shield plan would amount to joining the “operational phase of a US-Israeli plot” for the region.

He said that the missile shield plan was the continuation of organized efforts aimed at guaranteeing the survival and security of Israel.

Razmjou said that certain Western countries have turned the southern countries of the Persian Gulf into the stockpiles of US and European weapons by creating Iranophobic scenarios.

The US seeks to protect its numerous military bases in the region against Iran by establishing a new missile shield, the costs of which will be paid by the host Arab countries, he said, urging the regional states to think twice before agreeing to the plan.

In March, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton held talks in Saudi Arabia about plans for a Persian Gulf missile shield system to counter what she described as potential threats from Iran.

She said in an address to a [Persian] Gulf Cooperation Council-US Strategic Cooperation Forum in Riyadh that Washington was aiming for "practical and specific steps to strengthen our mutual security, such as helping our militaries improve interoperability, cooperate on maritime security and missile defense, and coordinate responses to crises.”

Iranian officials have repeatedly stressed that Tehran follows a defense doctrine, which is based on deterrence, and have pointed out that the Islamic Republic poses no threat to any country.