Martyrdom-seeking
Operations: "Zenith of Courage and
Bravery"
The following is excerpt from Ayatollah al-Udhma
Sayyed Ali Khamenei's
speech on the current situation
in
In the Name of God, the Merciful, the
Compassionate. First of all I would like to welcome
you my dear brothers and sisters. In particular I
would like to welcome the esteemed families of the
martyrs as well as my friends, brothers and sisters
who have come from other cities and remote areas...
The issues of the Islamic world are very
important. It should not be imagined that there is no
connection between our domestic issues and the
problems of the Islamic world,
East
inter-connected. The problems of nations are all
inter-related. The powers, which formulate policies
that lead to problems for the nations of the world, do
not distinguish between this or that nation in their
bid to fulfill their objectives and interests.
The
single nation. The issue is in effect about the
sovereignty of international dictatorship and the
domination of force and coercion. Just look at the
events in the Palestinian lands today. We are
witnessing some of the most tragic events in history
in
of
aircraft and the ruthless and oppressive firepower -
has imposed a siege on Palestinian towns. It is
occupying these towns one after the other, and
continues to massacre the people and destroy their
homes. One day it is Ramallah, and the next day it is
the turn of Jenin,
other cities.
One cannot begin to even describe the tragedies
that have taken place in these towns. We have seen
military forces entering these towns, killing,
wounding or arresting many innocent people. There are
many thousands of wounded people and thousands of
martyrs in these towns now. Moreover, they have
kidnapped thousands of young people out of their homes
and have taken them to unknown locations. They have
destroyed countless number of homes.
Generous US support for
I have heard that 70 per cent of Jenin
was
destroyed by Israeli forces. Can you imagine, tanks
rolling in and destroying 70 per cent of a city? What
is the meaning of these crimes that are committed
before the eyes of humanity? It means that a
government that is a tyrannical government that does
not care about any humanitarian, religious and divine
regulations. Such a government is creating these
tragedies to satisfy its own greed and to continue its
tyranny of the past several dozen years. Despite doing
so, the American government offers total and
unstinting support to
In the midst of these developments, all the
international slogans in support of human rights,
defense of nations, democracy, freedom and the rest
are forgotten. Despite the fact that the global
conscience was moved, the conscience of the American
leaders and the White House administration was not
distressed in the slightest.
They, the American administration, intend to make
the world understand the following two points: The
first is that they intend to keep this cancerous tumor
at all cost. Secondly, they wish to make the world
realize that they are going to resort to force. They
say: We intend to force and bully the rest of the
world and we do not care what is said against us. In
other words, they wish to convince the people of the
world that no word and no action will be able to stand
up to
That is what they are trying to prove, but they have
failed so far. Despite all their demonstration of
might, they have not reached their objectives so far.
Why? Because the nation of
surrendered.
They - by exerting pressure, by resorting to
massacre, by demonstrating lack of compassion and by
trampling on all humanitarian principles - intend to
force the Palestinian nation to surrender. They intend
to force the nation of
their demands and abandon its own justified wishes.
But they have failed to realize this objective.
Contrary to the assumption of
the power of force will not win. The final word in all
problems is uttered by the people's power of
determination and faith. This is true in this case
too.
Martyrdom-seeking Operations: "Zenith of Courage
and Bravery"
In response to the horrendous tyranny that the
people of
are two solutions. These two solutions are inevitable
and must be accepted by everyone. The first is to
continue the intifada. The people of
continue their resistance. Praise be to God, they have
stood firm so far. The climax of this resistance can
be seen in the martyrdom-seeking operations.
It is the zenith of honor for a man, a young
person, boy or girl, to be prepared to sacrifice his
life in order to serve the interests of his nation and
his religion. This is the zenith of courage and
bravery. This is what frightens the enemy. We have
therefore seen that everyone, from the American
president to the lowest rank of officials who work to
serve the American policies all over the world, has
tried to put a stop to these martyrdom-seeking
operations by censuring and denouncing it. On the
contrary, martyrdom-seeking operations demonstrate the
pinnacle of a nation's honor. They demonstrate the
zenith of the epic.
Are there not any martyrdom-seeking operations
when a military force is offering to sacrifice
everything to defend its homeland? Are there not any
martyrdom-seeking operations when a belligerent and
ruthless army commits an aggression against another
country, whose people put up a resistance against the
invading army? In such cases, who can condemn such
operations? Who can mar the value and esteem of such
operations in the minds of the fair and conscientious
people?
Martyrdom-seeking operations are the zenith of the
Palestinians greatness. This is the truth even though
some people may decide to utter and write
contradictory words and censure a nation which has
been suffering for 50 years, because of the failure of
the past generations to pay attention to its long-term
interests, and is now left with no option but to
sacrifice its blood to restore its rights. The
Palestinian nation is alive and alert and is moving
forward. This was the first solution.
Suspending Oil Exports
The second solution is support. The entire world
should support the Palestinians. Of course, the
nations have lent their support. Even in
nations have given support and have staged
demonstrations. They have used different vehicles to
express their heartfelt support. Even inside the
These trends will continue. Nonetheless, the
governments must also fulfill their duties. In
particular, the governments of Islamic countries, and
specifically the Arab states, must do their duties.
What we said about suspending oil exports for a
month was a fundamental issue, which obviously cannot
be approached superficially. Of course, this action is
not merely a theatrical move that one government alone
says I will suspend oil exports and it is not clear
whether that has happened or not. It is a real and
serious action. Everyone must make this decision. Some
arguments have been offered saying that in the first
place, such a move would be detrimental to those
cutting off their oil supplies. This is not true. This
is an error in calculations. Cutting off the oil
supplies is not disadvantageous to the nations. It
will in the end prove beneficial to them.
Right now one day the price of oil is 24 or 25
dollars per barrel and within a few days, it comes
down to 15 or 16 dollars. You can see that the nations
are coming to harm because of the dramatic
fluctuations in the oil price. This is because someone
else holds the reigns. By cutting off oil exports for
a month, the Muslim nations will demonstrate their
decision making clout. The Islamic governments and
nations will prove their ability to take action
against the system of international dictatorship, and
against the will of those bullies who only rely on the
power of their bayonet. They should do this. This
action is unavoidable.
Some governments such as
adopted good positions on this issue. All the Muslim
governments, and the oil-producing and exporting
countries must attach a lot of importance to this
historic duty. History will judge them for their
ability to take decisive steps. Even today, the
nations are going to judge them and come to a decision
about their sincerity and virtues on this basis.
Of course, this is only one of the ways by which
help can be given to the Palestinians. There are,
however, other ways. The governments and nations must
provide financial aid. I said this to our nation and
other nations in one of my recent Friday prayer
sermons. One should support the oppressed people who
are fighting in defense of their homeland, Bayt
al-Muqadas and the identity of a Muslim nation, and
are seeking to put a stop to the presence of global
arrogance in this region.
Both the governments that neighbor
all the liberation movements and popular resistance
forces must assist the Palestinians. Anyone who is
able to render such assistance must do so promptly.
This is a duty for everyone.
Islamic Republic Not Scared of the
The American government is standing firm behind
the Israeli government, despite all the deceptive
claims that the American media relentless put forward
about the leadership of the world, human rights, and
so on and so forth. One is really astonished at the
shameless audacity of some arrogant statesmen of the
world.
They consider their actions to be the embodiment
of justice, even though they do not understand the
meaning of the concept. The American government does
not know what justice means. Which of their actions
can be called just? They consider this the Israeli
action as a just war and as a war against terrorism.
However, they themselves are openly supporting the
most cowardly terrorists. Humanity's brow is covered
with the sweat of shame and embarrassment [Audience
chants: Death to
Of course today the Americans have totally fallen
from the eyes of the world nations that is, they have
lost the respect of the world nations, thanks to their
irrational behavior. They are despised. They have
attracted the hatred of all the people who have pure
hearts and clear conscience.
In the eye of the American government any state
that adopts a justified stance against their actions
in
against the Islamic Republic because the Islamic
Republic speaks of justice, because the Islamic
Republic is not influenced by fear of
it is not scared of
abandon its will just to please
and because it is not prepared to lose its
independence. That is why they are hostile with the
Islamic Republic.
In the past, whenever they intended to say
something against the Islamic Republic, they used to
make allegations that human rights are not respected
in
obvious. It is now clear what the reason for their
opposition to the Islamic Republic is. The reason is
that the Islamic Republic has not submitted to the
logic of bullying and shall never do so [Audience
chants: Allahu Akbar, Death
to
The Islamic Republic of Iran's stances are very
clear and 100 percent rational. The state authorities
have mentioned these stances on many occasions. The
esteemed president has repeatedly reiterated these
stances during his visits in recent days before other
nations and at international organizations. These are
the logical stances of the Islamic Republic.
When you look at the Islamic world, you will see
that every single member of the Muslim nations lauds
these stances. The nations are after justice. The
basic strategy for global system of arrogance and
bullying is to force the nations to accept its logic
of coercion, oppression and injustice.
They are seeking a world that is based on
oppression and tyranny. They want to run this world
with tyranny to the advantage of large companies and
capitalists or the Zionist or non-Zionist managers of
the world's huge financial resources, and to the
detriment of the nations.
Moreover, they expect everyone to obey these
stances. But, how can this ever materialize? It is
possible that some governments may give in to this
pressure, because they want to safeguard the personal
interests of their officials. However, a
justice-seeking government or nation - which speaks
and acts under the banner of Islam and adopts its
stances on the basis of its independence and national
identity - is never going to succumb...
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