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\u00a0Leader of the Islamic Revolution has said Sacred Defense was an invaluable cultural heritage which should not be forgotten by the deafening propaganda of the cultural invasion.
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\nAyatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei received a group of Sacred Defense commanders, warriors, and organizers of Rahian-e Noor, state-organized visits by university students and the public alike to border regions where Iran fought an imposed war during 8 years against Iraq\u2019s Baathist Saddam Hussein in the 1980s.
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\nAyatollah Khamenei deemed the visits a measure and a good initiative to present the public with a cornucopia of cultural wealth; \u201cthe sole scheme to fight the cultural invasion is to draw upon this wealth of materials of the Sacred Defense and helping cultural production,\u201d he told the meeting.
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\n\u201cResistance will ultimately pay off and the enemy will retreat in ignominy; Sacred Defense is a cultural wealth which should be kept alive, as it contributed to the history of the Revolution during 1980s; why Saddam invaded Iran? They felt that Iran was in a position of weakness; they even predicted the depth of this weakness and purportedly would have dine in Tehran after 3 or 4 days,\u201d he quoted Saddam Hussein, who was ambitious enough to be lured to such escapades.\u00a0
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\n\u201cThis is a general rule of the world: that enemies would be embolden if we admit our weakness; in economy of the modern times when they sanctioned us, this was the case. They sanctioned us because they found that Iran\u2019s economy was not in an ideal shape to survive pressures; this was the case when in 1980 Iraq attacked Iran. At that time, Iran was actually and really weak, lacking the logistics and organized army, with no experience of a war,\u201d Ayatollah Khamenei emphasized.
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\nLeader denounced the critics of the Sacred Defense who waged attempts to undermine the war years and its values; \u201csuch efforts should be systematically prevented; no movie or book may undermine the achievements and culture of the Sacred Defense,\u201d he demanded. \u201cFor a strong economy and state, culture should be strong enough to contribute to soft power of a country; cultural production should be improved in order to avoid imports of alien cultural products which would stand cacophonous to indigenous culture; the status quo when unregulated number of books and cultural products are imported is a source of grave concerns, which infested the culture,\u201d Leader lamented.\u00a0
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\nAyatollah Khamenei reiterated his cultural revolution as a poison by the Western powers to alienate Iranian young generation from their true identity; \u201ccultural traps are far more damaging than conventional war and military threats; the latter makes the nation embrace for pressures, but the former demoralizes young cohort and deprives the country from its energetic minds,\u201d he concluded.<\/p>","content_source":"","content_url":"","content_columns":"0","content_date_start":"2017-03-06 17:34:56","content_date_finish":"2017-03-06 17:34:56","content_date_register":"2017-03-06 17:38:56","content_date_last_edit":"2017-03-06 17:38:56","content_show_img":"1","content_show_details":"0","content_show_related_img":"0","content_show_slider":"1","content_show_title_slider":"1","content_comment":"1","content_score":"0","content_recorded":"0","content_confirmed":"0","content_status":"1","content_kind":"0","tag_id":null,"tag_word":null,"tag_service":null,"tag_total":null,"tag_soundex":null,"attach_token":"2356421516","attach_date_register":"2017-03-06 17:38:29","attach_id":"1711","attach_file_ext":"jpg","attach_file_header":"image\/jpeg","attach_img_type":"2","attach_img_width":"2200","attach_img_height":"1490","attach_file_media":"1","attach_show_watermark":"1","score_average":null,"score_count":null,"score_date_last":null,"visit_count":"2040","visit_date_last":"2024-11-24 06:20:39","attach_title":"Admitting weakness would embolden enemy to attack 2","node_title":"Favorite,Important,News","ot_node_left_right":"[{\"node_id\":98, \"left\":2, \"right\":11},{\"node_id\":125, \"left\":62, \"right\":63},{\"node_id\":126, \"left\":64, \"right\":65}]","node_number":"3","allowable_node":"3"}]]