Tehran’s Interim Friday Prayers Leader, Ayatollah Seyyed Ahmad Khatami, has said the responsibility for the recent terrorist attack on a Shiite mosque in the southeastern Iranian city of Zahedan lies firmly at the feet of global arrogance. Speaking to a large crowd of Friday prayers worshippers and the faithful in Tehran, Ayatollah Seyyed Ahmad Khatami emphasized that this terrorist attack bore all the hallmarks of US and Zionist involvement and was without a doubt carried out with US and Zionist backing. The terror attack left scores of people injured and martyred.
Elsewhere in his remarks, Seyyed Ahmad Khatami referred to last week’s trip to Kurdistan province by the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution, stressing that the visit was very useful in bringing closer the Shiite and Sunni communities in Kurdistan. He pointedly stressed that the objective behind last night’s terrorist attack on a mosque in Zahedan in southeastern Iran was to divide Shiites and Sunnis in that part of the country.
In further remarks, Tehran’s interim Friday prayers leader referred to the anniversary of the passing away of the founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran, the late Imam Khomeini (May his soul rest in peace), pointing out the very valuable political principles enunciated by the late Imam. Seyyed Ahmad Khatami emphasized that Imam Khomeini’s politics were always based on Islam, as a central pivot, with plenty of emphasis on the Islamic Republic, obeying laws, fighting global arrogance and the bullying powers, and defending the rights of the oppressed Palestinians. He pointedly added: “When hardly anybody raised a voice in opposition to the Zionists, the late Imam Khomeini (May his souI rest in peace) founded the International Al-Quds Day, to draw attention to plight of the Palestinians and to support the Palestinian people’s cause.