Tehran, YJC. Supreme Leader emphasizes domestic capabilities in fighing superpowers.
Iran’s Supreme Leader visited Ilam on Tuesday.
Ayatollah Khamenei addressed national independence and said "If we focus on
domestic capabilities neither the US nor other powers will be able to do a damn
thing. The Iranian nation will not succumb.”
Stressing the need to activate potentials home he said "It is under such
circumstances that the country will thrive in material, spiritual, and ethical
terms as well as in international prestige and pride. It is in that case that the
country will get rid of the arrogance of foreign enemeies.”
Blasting critics who challenge the idea that the Islamic government is
given the duty to lead people to heaven he said "The duty of the Islamic
governor is to take people to real happiness, which does not mean to use force
and to make people do things, but rather to prepare the grounds for people to
do so based on people’s instinctive inclination to happiness.”
"Imam Khomeini realized the truth
when he said ‘The US cannot do a damn thing,’” ayatollah Khamenei asserteed,
adding "If we set domestic potentials into action and focus on domestic
capabilities, neither the US nor other powers will be able to do a damn thing,
be it military or otherwise. They won’t be able to ground the Iranian nation by
force.”