Leader Calls Muslims to Unity and Vigilance

Written by Press TV

Tuesday, 12 May 2009 11:04

Leader Calls Muslims to Unity and Vigilance

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei urges Iranians and Muslims in general to resist enemy efforts to fuel sectarianism.

"Those who are targeting our national unity using faith as an excuse… they are the elements of the enemy," the Leader said in the western Iranian city of Sanandaj on Tuesday.

"Those who try to sow discord among Shia and Sunni are mercenaries of the enemy, whether they realize it or not," Ayatollah Khamenei told the large crowd gathered for the speech.

"The miserable Salafi and Wahhabi groups who are fed petro-dollars to carry out terrorist acts in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and elsewhere, many of them are not aware that they are mercenaries of the enemy."

Speaking in the Kurd and Sunni majority province of Kurdestan, Ayatollah Khamenei went on to say that Shias who insult Sunni beliefs, and vice versa, are also working for the interests of world powers and adversaries of Islam.

Moderate Sunni and Shia Muslims are of the belief that the Wahhabi ideology, which leaders of groups such as the Taliban and al-Qaeda seek to promote, bears no resemblance with Islam.

Comments made by US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at a congressional hearing confirm that Washington supports such groups as part of its pursuit of its regional interests.

"And great, let them come from Saudi Arabia and other countries, importing their Wahhabi brand of Islam so that we can go beat the Soviet Union," she said on the Taliban's creation in the 1980s.

During the Tuesday speech, Iran's most senior official said that the Iranian nation would defend its territorial integrity against powers that do not want a united Iran.

Kurdestan is the Iranian province where PJAK separatists, offshoots of the internationally-recognized terrorist group the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), seek to gain ground by carrying out violent attacks.

According to a November 2006 article published by The New Yorker, the US military and Israel provide PJAK with equipment, training and vital intelligence to destabilize the Iranian government.

Source: Press TV

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written by zahra, May 21, 2009

to all Muslims around the world.. let us unite hand in hand.. always be conscious and watchful around us and do not easily be decieved by enemies. long live IRAN.. long live IRAN..

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written by dal, June 09, 2009

A wise man & a believer, it is not just for Iran but for all Muslims, there should be a Middle East union like the European Union, with all helping each to improve every one life to become peaceful, prosperous & secure.

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written by Sayed Najib, June 18, 2009

maybe a believer, but he doesn't act upon his knowledge. I see what he does with immigrants like the Afghan people, he oppresses them, they get beaten, they have to pay a large amount of money to stay in Iran. I hope my message won't get censured. There are really few people with heart out here in this world, but I know those Iranian politics aren't one of them. America is a terrorist, sure, I believe that, but Iran isn't much better. So first improve your country before you say something about others, so you may be convincing.

Assalamunaleykum