Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has said there is no room for any political affiliations in the Assembly of Experts. “There has never been and will not be any room for personal matters or political factionalism or affiliations in the Assembly of Experts,” he said in a meeting with the Assembly of Experts members on Thursday.

The Assembly of Experts is constitutionally tasked to appoint and supervise the Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Its representatives are elected to eight-year terms in a general election.

The concerns of the prominent clerical figures in the Assembly of Experts are always the people’s concerns, Ayatollah Khamenei added.

Commenting on the post-election unrest, he said the incidents were completely preplanned but the enemy’s plot failed.

Ayatollah Khamenei also said that there is only a remote possibility that the enemies will start a military confrontation with Iran.

“At this juncture, the enemy is confronting the Islamic establishment through psychological warfare, which is called soft warfare,” he stated.

“In the soft war, the opposition to the establishment uses propaganda and communications tools to target the will, pillars… and beliefs of the establishment and the country,” he noted.

The enemies of the Islamic establishment are attempting to encourage the ordinary people and the elite to stop hating them, he added.

He went on to say that the unity of the people can be seen and the people’s participation in the International Quds Day demonstrations and the Eid al-Fitr prayers is a sign of the unity of society.

Ayatollah Khamenei also stated that the divisive remarks and actions of certain people are a result of their ignorance and negligence.