Hezbollah Lauds Imam Khamenei's Key Role in Muslims' Progress

(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - Deputy Secretary-General of the Lebanese Hezbollah Sheikh Naim Qassem praised the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei, for his key role in the progress of the Islamic nations.     
 
"Ayatollah Khamenei helped the Middle-East region, the Islamic countries in particular, experience many possibilities and progresses by introducing the criteria of unity and cooperation in the Islamic world, ," Sheikh Naim Qassem said on Friday.

Elsewhere, he warned that the plots hatched by the US and other enemies against Islam and Islamic countries are endless.

Pointing to the recent popular uprisings, Sheikh Qassem cautioned that the US may seek to hijack the achievements that the regional nations have gained through their uprisings and revolutions.

The Supreme Leader had earlier cautioned that the US had initiated efforts to hijack the popular uprisings in the region and derail the Islamic awakening move in the Middle-East and North Africa.

"The United States does not do anything in the interest of the regional nations. Whatever they have done so far has been against the regional nations," Ayatollah Khamenei said, addressing a large crowd of the people at the mausoleum of the late Founder of the Islamic Republic, Imam Khomeini, South of Tehran.

The Leader urged Muslim countries to remain vigilant in the face of the Western plots.

In recent months, a wave of revolutions and anti-government uprisings has swept the Arab world.

In January, a revolution in Tunisia ended the 23-year ruling of former President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.

In February, another Arab revolution led to the ouster of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak after three decades of his authoritarian rule.

Other revolutions, then, erupted in Libya, Yemen and Bahrain, while other anti-government unrests have started in Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Oman, Kuwait and Algeria.

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