The member of the board of directors of the Assembly of Experts said, “The wise Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution [Ayatollah Khamenei] has repeatedly warned that Iran won’t negotiate with the disloyal and oppressive American government so that the enemies can’t say that maximum pressure has brought Iran to the negotiating table. Sometimes the enemies have heard whispers and gave been greedy. They want to pit the people against the Islamic system through the utmost pressure but they’re blinded and the people will remain on the scene until the end.”
He noted, “The condition of resistance is to use the country’s internal capacities and resources and prove that the pressures of the enemies haven’t been effective. With divine favour, if the authorities look to internal capacities rather than outside capacities, they will grant the Iranian nation a definite victory.”
Referring to the attack by the Yemeni resistance on the Aramco refinery in Saudi Arabia, Ayatollah Hoseyni-Bushehri added, “After the attack they asked ‘who is behind the attack?’ and didn’t want to admit that Ansarullah and the oppressed and heroic people of Yemen carried out the attack and accused others.”
The secretary of the Supreme Council of the Islamic Seminaries stated that the United States and Saudi Arabia have been committing crimes in Yemen for five years, said, “It’s really funny to say that the attack on Aramco was a war crime and it has to be investigated whether the weapon was from Iran or not. Why not investigate the weapons being used against the oppressed Yemeni people?”
He added, “If they stop their oppression and stop murdering the oppressed people of Yemen, they will not have such consequences. The Yemenis are a people who fight heroically and don’t surrender.”
Ayatollah Hoseyni-Bushehri said, “On the day that the [Iranian] officials announced that ‘if our oil isn’t exported, no oil would be exported from the Persian Gulf,’ the enemies thought we were closing the Strait of Hormuz but they didn’t know that the Islamic resistance and revolutionaries of the world and those who know the enemies would enter the scene and inflict the greatest blow on the enemies. We don’t need to close the Strait of Hormuz because today the Islamic Resistance Front has reached the maturity of how to strike them.”
Referring to the greatness of the upcoming Arba’in pilgrimage, His Eminence stated, “Arba’in is a unique march in history that has broadened the Husayni knowledge and provided the basis for Islamic civilization in the light of the Arba’in movement.”
He added, “During Arba’in, Shi’ahs, Sunnis and followers of other religions declare their love and devotion to the Master of the Martyrs [Imam al-Husayn] and there is no such issue anywhere else in the world. We thank the beloved Iraqi people for their hospitality and warm welcome and we thank the Iraqi government for providing the facilities and we hope that this year’s Arba’in commemoration will be more glorious than ever and a thorn in the eyes of the enemies.”