The Supreme Leader of Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, has issued a message of condolence following the recent bloody terrorist attack in the southeastern Iranian city of Zahedan. The message refers to plots and conspiracies by ‘interventionist powers’, and their intelligence and spying agencies, which are trying to fuel tensions, sedition, and fratricide among Muslim communities. The message warns all Iranian people to be vigilant and aware of the enemies’ plots, and calls on officials to be on their guard, be aware of enemy plots, and maintain Islamic and national unity.
Excerpts from the message by the Supreme Leader of Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, are as follows:
The bloody terrorist incident in Zahedan which led to the martyrdom and injury of a number of worshippers and followers of the Holy Prophet’s Household (Peace be upon them) caused me great sadness, heartache and dismay. Murdering faithful and innocent individuals who had gathered in the House of God to worship and supplicate, followers of the Holy Prophet’s Household (Peace be upon them), is an enormous crime, whose perpetrators, their accomplices and facilitators God Almighty will not forgive easily. Those who have committed this terrorist crime, although they may be ignorant, misguided or angry, they have committed a big crime, and there is no doubt that those who have aided and abetted this crime, providing support for the terrorists, such as some ‘interventionist powers’, and their intelligence and spying agencies, are stained with the blood of the innocent victims of this bloody terror attack.
In his message the Supreme Leader said one of the persistent aims of the enemies of Iran has always been to stoke tensions, sedition, and fratricide among Muslim communities in this region, and in Iran in particular. He said it is only through vigilance that these plots can be foiled.
Elsewhere in the message the Supreme Leader stressed that security and political officials must be fully alert and vigilant, and do everything to protect the security of all Muslim peoples, and bring to justice all those responsible for this terrorist outrage.
In the end of his message, the Supreme Leader expressed his condolences to all the families of the victims who had lost their loved ones, wishing divine exultation for the martyrs of this terrorist attack, and a speedy recovery, for all those who had been injured.