Imam Khomeini's wise path ensures progress and prosperity

He described Imam Khomeini as the great architect of the growing, stable, and powerful Islamic Republican system, saying, "Thirty-six years after the passing of this great man, his presence and the impact of his Revolution are clearly felt in such areas as the decline of the great powers, the emergence of a multipolar world order, the sharp fall in the status and influence of America, the rise of hatred toward Zionism even in Europe and America, and nations awakening to reject Western values."

The Leader of the Revolution pointed to the West's astonishment at the mobilisation of the Iranian people by a religious scholar, the victory of the Imam and the nation with their bare hands over the heavily armed and dependent Pahlavi regime, and the expulsion of the parasitic and plundering Americans and Zionists from Iran.

He said, "The West's second shock was the establishment of the system of the Islamic Republic through the Imam's wisdom and his determined efforts."

Recalling America's hope for the rise of a subservient government in Iran to restore its illegitimate interests, Ayatollah Khamenei added, "By clearly expressing his position on establishing an Islamic and religious system in Iran, the Imam shattered that hope of the Americans and it was from this point that the enemies' destructive plotting began."

He described the scale, variety, and intensity of the West's, especially America's, destructive schemes against the Islamic Revolution as unprecedented in the history of modern revolutions.

He stated, "Provoking ethnic strife, arming anti-revolutionary and leftist groups, inciting and supporting a bloodthirsty wolf named Saddam to attack Iran, and the assassination of the Imam's companions were some of the hostile acts of the enemy. These acts continued in later decades with the targeted killing of nuclear scientists."