AhlulBayt News Agency (ABNA): Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has called for efforts to pave the ground for people to play a more active role in major events.
“We must not forget the power of people to play a role in major events,” he said during a meeting with some two thousand people from the central province of Qom.
“We experienced this in our lifetime. We should not forget this experience and should share it with others,” he added.
He pointed to the developments in Gaza, saying people’s presence and their resistance against occupation have frustrated the Zionist regime and the United States. “This is what people’s presence means,” he asserted.
Commemorating the 46th anniversary of the uprising by the people of Qom against the former regime of Iranian dictator Mohammad-Reza Pahlavi, Ayatollah Khamenei said the Qom uprising was an even greater event than the Gaza uprising.
“The people of Qom came to the streets, some were martyred, some were beaten, and some went to prison, but they initiated a movement that managed to overthrow in nearly a year an arrogant, oppressive, dependent regime that ruled over this country,” he explained.
The meeting was held at Imam Khomeini Hussainiyah in Tehran on the occasion of the 46th anniversary of the uprising by the people of Qom against the former regime of Iranian dictator Mohammad-Reza Pahlavi.
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