Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, in remarks addressed to Iranian relief workers during a Monday meeting, likened Israeli soldiers in Gaza to “wild animals in human form who bomb ambulances, bomb hospitals, bomb and kill the sick, and mercilessly eliminate innocent and defenseless children.”
“Who can claim, and truly believe, that in the face of these barbarities, this bloodthirstiness, a human has no responsibility? Who can say that? We all have a duty.”
The Leader said these oppressive regimes currently control the world, and Iran is confronting them to change the existing state of affairs worldwide.
“The movement of the Islamic Republic, the steadfastness of the Islamic Republic, and the ‘new civilization’ that the Islamic Republic repeatedly refers to are all aimed at confronting this state of the world,” Ayatollah Khamenei stated.
The Leader said Iran’s resistance against oppression is the root of enmity on the part of certain Western states towards the country.
“It is this same sense of duty that forces enemies like these Western, well-dressed, perfumed, and nice-looking savages to stand in enmity against the Islamic Republic.”
“If you don’t object to these acts of savagery, if you go along with them, if you even praise them, they will have no enmity towards you.”
“The problem is precisely that you are rejecting the foundation of this false civilization, and you are right; you must reject it,” the Leader said.
Ayatollah Khamenei said the world can defeat this falsehood through action and resistance.
“If you stand firm, if you resist, without a doubt, they will retreat. But if you sit still, show a friendly face, smile, run away, or even praise their actions, no, they will not disappear; they will only grow more brazen day by day.