(AhlulBayt News Agency) - The following is the speech delivered on November 2, 2016 by Ayatollah Khamenei, the conscious Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution, in a meeting with thousands of university and secondary school students. The meeting was held on the occasion of the "National Day of Fighting Against Global Arrogance".
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... Did you watch the recent debate between the two candidates for the U.S. presidential elections? Did you see the truths that they revealed? Did you listen to them? They revealed the true nature of America.
The truths that they revealed were several times larger in number [and worse] than the truths which we had disclosed. Of course, some people did not believe or did not want to believe them.
And what is interesting is that the person who spoke more candidly attracted more attention from the people of America.
Because that man (Donald Trump) spoke more candidly and more openly, the people of America paid more attention to him.
The other party said that he is adopting a populist method. Why populist? It is because the people were watching him and they saw that what he was saying was correct. They saw it in the realities of their life. Human values have been annihilated and trampled upon in that country. There is racial discrimination in that country.
Just a few days before that debate, that man (Donald Trump) stood up in his presidential campaign and said that if you are colored – black or red-skinned - and if you are walking on the streets of New York, Chicago, Washington, California and other such cities, you cannot be sure that you will remain alive for a few more minutes! Notice that this is being said by a person who expects to go to the White House in a few days to manage the affairs of America! American racism means this.
Poverty has struck the Americans as well. He (Trump) said that 44 million people are hungry in America! He and others said that less than one percent of the people of America are the owners of 90 percent of American wealth.
Human values have been trampled upon in that country. There is discrimination, differentiation, racism and annihilation of human rights in America.
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