The Leader of the Islamic Revolution in Iran Imam Sayyed Ali Khamanei called for developing the country’s defense program, noting that Tehran considers limitations for such development.
Addressing a group of top officials and specialists of Iran’s Ministry of Defense, Imam Khamenei said that Iran considers building nuclear and chemical weapons prohibited on the basis of its ideological beliefs.
“Apart from these limitations, there is no limitation in other fields for increasing our defense and military capability and progress in these fields is a duty,” the Leader said, adding that in order to preserve the country’s security and future of the nation, “offensive capability should be bolstered, in addition to defensive capability.”
“Under conditions when bullying world powers have spread their umbrella of power and no mercy is seen in them and openly attack marriage ceremonies and hospitals on the pretext of fighting against terrorism, killing hundreds of innocent people without being accountable to any [international] organization or institution, [Iran’s] defensive capability and power must be increased so that bullying powers would feel threatened,” Imam Khamenei said.
Elsewhere in his remarks, the Leader of the Islamic Revolution said the US government is not morally qualified to pass judgment on the Islamic Republic, noting that this includes both the ruling Democrat Party and its rival, the Republican Party.
The Leader said “creation of dangerous terrorist networks” was the “biggest sin” committed by the party that supports the incumbent US administration, adding, “The existing government of America apparently attacks one terrorist group, but excludes another terrorist group, which means that politics is governing ethics.”
Saying that the former US administration was also responsible for crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan, Ayatollah Khamenei concluded that “none of the two dominant parties in America is preferable over the other in terms of moral competence.”
Source: Agencies
