Iran’s
Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei asks the youth from the West to have
“honourable interaction” with the Muslim world.
In an open letter, the Iranian leader asks the youth in
Western nations to learn from tragic incidents like Paris attacks. He says the
“blind terrorism” in France motivated him to write to the young people in
Western countries. He shares it was “regretful” that such issues provide
the ground for dialogues.
“The
suffering of every human being in any spot in the world is per se sorrowful for
his fellow humans,” the open letter says. “The scene of a child dying before
the eyes of his beloved ones, a mother whose family’s happiness turns into
mourning, a husband carrying the lifeless body of his wife to somewhere
hastily, or a spectator who is not aware that he is going to see the last
sequence of his life in moments, are not scenes which would not stir human
sentiments and feelings.”
While
Khamenei mourns the death of the victims of the Paris attacks on Nov. 13, he
accuses the West of supporting Israel’s state terrorism. He says the people of
Palestine have been suffering “the worst kind of terrorism” for over 60 years.
The
Iranian leader earlier blamed the United States for using money and sex to
infiltrate Iran. He told commanders of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps
that political factions in the country should not use such things against one
another.
“The
enemy sets up a network within a nation and inside a country mainly through the
two means of money and sexual attractions to change ideals, beliefs and
consequently the lifestyle,” The New York Times quoted Khamenei as saying on state
television.
Iranian
President Hassan Rouhani blamed hard-liners for misusing Khamenei’s comments as
an excuse to arrest pro-Western writers and journalists.
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