{"id":15118,"date":"2018-10-15T02:41:14","date_gmt":"2018-10-15T02:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/?p=15118"},"modified":"2018-10-15T02:41:14","modified_gmt":"2018-10-15T02:41:14","slug":"iranian-shiites-sunnis-united-in-toughest-situations-ayatollah-khamenei-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/iranian-shiites-sunnis-united-in-toughest-situations-ayatollah-khamenei-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Iranian Shiites, Sunnis united in toughest situations: Ayatollah Khamenei"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"lead\">Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei hailed the unity of the Iranian Shiite and Sunni Muslims and said they have sided each other in most difficult conditions.<\/h2>\n<div class=\"body\">\n<p>(Tasnim) &#8212; In a February 5 meeting with the organizers of a conference to commemorate the martyrs of the southeastern province of Sistan and Balouchestan, the Leader praised the \u201cbrotherly ties\u201d among the people of the province as \u201ca symbol of Islamic unity\u201d and a role model for the world\u2019s Shiites and Sunni Muslims.<\/p>\n<p>Leader&#8217;s remarks were released and read at the said conference that was held in Iran&#8217;s southeastern city of Zahedan today (February 13).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe martyrdom of a Sunni young man in the Sacred Defense (the Iraqi imposed war on Iran in 1980s)\u2026 indicates that the Shiites and Sunni brothers in the Islamic Republic side each other in most difficult battlefields,\u201d Ayatollah Khamenei said at the meeting.<\/p>\n<p>The Leader further urged that the reality about the unity among Iranian Shiites and Sunnis should be highlighted and showcased through cultural and artistic works.<\/p>\n<p>Ayatollah Khamenei further referred to the enemies\u2019 plots to undermine the Islamic Republic\u2019s power and said the resistance of the country against \u201cthe modern barbarism\u201d, economic sanctions, and all military and cultural conspiracies of the enemies has its roots in the power of religious beliefs of the Iranian people.<\/p>\n<p>The Leader has on many occasions urged vigilance in the face of enemy ploys to gain a political and cultural foothold in Iran, warning that the consequences of such infiltration would be much worse than that of enemy\u2019s economic influence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEconomic and security infiltration is of course dangerous and has dire consequences, but the enemy\u2019s political and cultural infiltration (into Iran) is a much more serious threat that everyone should be vigilant about,\u201d Ayatollah Khamenei said back in September 2015.<\/p>\n<p>As part of plans for cultural infiltration, the enemy has made heavy investment to gradually change the Iranian people\u2019s beliefs, the Leader explained at the time.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei hailed the unity of the Iranian Shiite and Sunni Muslims and said they have sided each other in most difficult conditions. (Tasnim) &#8212; In a February 5 meeting with the organizers of a conference to commemorate the martyrs of the southeastern province of Sistan and Balouchestan, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":15119,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1454],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-imam-khamenei"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15118"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15120,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15118\/revisions\/15120"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}