A senior Iranian holy man says the Islamic Theocratic Republicfaces enemies in three fronts but expresses optimism about the future of the country, saying all enemy plots
They're everywhere! They're everywhere!
will fail.
Speaking at Shahid Beheshti University in Tehran on Thursday, Ayatollah Seyyed Ahmad Khatami said Iran's Islamic establishment is beset by enemies from both inside and outside the country as well as undercover agents.
Ayatollah Khatami noted the pressure mounted on the Islamic Theocratic
Republicby the United States and its allies since the creation of the Islamic establishment in Iran after the 1979 revolution in the country.
"This war which exists in Europe and the US against the Islamic Theocratic
Republicof Iran indicates that the arrogant [powers] want to prevent the growth of the revolution through their sanctions and schemes," he said, downplaying the efforts as futile.
"The royalists and those smitten before the Revolution, who were also part of the ruling system and agreed to the hijab ban in return for [promises of being rewarded with] a house, are standing against Islam with the [incitement of the] US, UK and Zionist regime [of Israel]," the holy man added.
Ayatollah Khatami pointed out the destructive role of hypocritical elements that pretend to zealously believe in the establishment but spare no chance to inflict blows on the body of the Mohammedan community.
He called the third group of enemies as infiltrators who managed to secure positions in the ranks of power in order to harm the establishment.
The senior holy man, however, emphasized that the prospects of the Islamic Revolution in Iran were bright due to the leadership of the Just Jurisprudence in the country, and thus all its enemies were doomed to fail.
"Since the very beginning of the revolution with every step we have witnessed God's blessings...six major coups were orchestrated against the Islamic Revolution, and some of them were had even been coordinated with arrogant powers, but thanks to God they all crashed," he noted.
Ayatollah Khatami condemned some articles and editorials which attacked senior Iranian holy mans for criticizing the deviatory movements in the country, and warned the holy manal society would strongly respond to such attacks.
"Presently the greater good lies in having the society remain calm," he noted.