Ali Khamenei Quotes


The great Islamic nation cannot ... be indifferent and remain silent on the injustice done to you. The Islamic nation is required to assist you in any way it can.


Citations

Khamenei, Ali. "Message to the Palestinian Prime Minister." Khamenei.ir, 29 Feb. 2008.

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The new his Islamic concept is it the heart of much of the ambivalence that Muslims have for others and that many non-Islamic nations have for Islam. Normally Mohammed was very insistent are not tolerating oppression. However it is this passage which for many Muslims justifies their support of terrorists and other malevolent forces so long as they are brother Muslims. Counter pressure which exists in other religious groups is there by diminished with Islam. Essentially this is the religious equivalent of “my country right or wrong”. The first sentence of the quotation is one of the main reasons that Islam is viewed by most Muslims as super national. It represents the first and most important identity for a Muslim in contrast to country or even family.


Ali Khamenei
Ali Khamenei
  • Born: July 16, 1939
  • Nationality: Iranian
  • Profession: Statesman

Sayyid Ali Hosseini Khamenei is a Twelver Shia Marja' and the second and current supreme leader of Iran, in office since 1989. He was previously President of Iran from 1981 to 1989. Khamenei is the longest serving head of state in the Middle East, as well as the second-longest serving Iranian leader of the last century, after Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.