The Leader of the Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, has said the best criterion for the Islamic revolution is Imam Khomeini and the policies and ideas of the founder of the Islamic republic.        

Tehran’s Friday Prayers were led today by the Leader of the Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei . Addressing a huge multi-million strong gathering of mourners in the mausoleum of the late founder of the Islamic republic, Imam Khomeini (may his souls rest in peace), the Leader expounded on Imam Khomeini’s thoughts, ideology and righteous path, and emphasized the need for determining a criterion for avoiding deviations in the path of the Islamic revolution and stressed that the late Imam Khomeini himself sets the best standard, the best criterion, yardstick and gauge for this purpose.

Elsewhere in his remarks, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei said the issue of occupied Palestine, Gaza’s Zionist-imposed blockade, and the Israeli regime’s attack on the “Freedom Flotilla” are some of the most important issues of the world of Islam today. The Leader emphasized that the world of Islam must stand with all of its might against the callousness and brutality of the Israeli regime.

The Leader went on to remind the audience of the historic phrase of the late Imam, that “Israel is a cancerous Tumor”, and said the barbaric attack of the Israeli military on a flotilla of ships carrying humanitarian aid for the people of blockaded Gaza strip was a huge mistake by the Israeli regime. He added mistakes such as this bring the Israeli regime closer to its “inevitable and certain end” – its plunge into the abyss of death.

Elsewhere in his remarks, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei referred to the NPT review conference which drew to a close recently in New York, and said: “Some major powers organized this event in order to make it more difficult for nations of this world to have access to peaceful nuclear energy, placing more obstacles along their way”.

The Leader said some of the major results of the NPT review conference were the fact that many nations called fore destruction of all nuclear weapons, they called for a complete halt to manufacture of all nuclear weapons worldwide , they condemned the Israeli regimes nuclear weapons arsenal, and emphasized that all countries are lawfully entitled to peaceful civilian use of nuclear energy.