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Planning recreational activities for people is worship of God: Ayatollah Khamenei

In Islam, recreation and entertainment--making others happy, pleased, and hopeful--is regarded as very important. So, when you're involved in entertainment activity: perform a play, tell a funny story, recite a poem or hold a competition, you should feel like you're worshiping God.

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President and his cabinet met with Ayatollah Khamenei

Celebrating National Government week, the President and his cabinet met with Ayatollah Khamenei--the Leader of the Islamic Revolution on August 26, 2017. This item is being updated...

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Young Iranian men long for permission to fight ISIS

ISIS in Afghanistan: Western powers' fire claims Afghans' lives

#AfricanDescent

African descendants in US still face danger: Ayatollah Khamenei

They used to capture hundreds of thousands of men and women, young and old with their guns and other weapons, which were not available to the victims of that time. Enduring difficult conditions, they [people from African nations] were taken to America on slave ships. They captivated people who were once free, living in their own homes and villages. Presently, the African American people who live in the Americas are the descendants of those slaves.

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What is the great lesson Imam Jawad (as) teaches us?

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Ayatollah Khamenei meets with cultural activists and officials

Ayatollah Khamenei, the Leader of the Islamic Revolution, met with a group of cultural officials and activists from the provinces of Yazd and Hamadan on Monday morning, August 21, 2017.

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What are statuses and duties of the "Expediency Council" in the Iranian system?

How do mosques differ from Synagogues and Churches? Ayatollah Khamenei answers

Of course, places of worship exist in all religions. These are places where people sit and worship God. However, mosques are different from the Christian, Jewish, Buddhist and other religious temples that we have seen and heard about. The Holy Prophet (s.w.a.) did not just go to a mosque to say prayers and then leave. He used to speak about those issues which occurred to society and which were important.

Mr. Hamadani Was a Source of Reference for the Youth in the Front Lines: Ayatollah Khamenei

The following is the full text of the speech delivered on August 21, 2017 by Ayatollah Khamenei, the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution, in a meeting with the officials of the Ayatollah Aqa Najafi Hamadani Commemoration Congress.

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Martyr Hojaji became God's proof before everyone's eyes: Ayatollah Khamenei

Beloved Martyr Hojaji shined brilliantly in a world where there are plenty of deceptive audio and visual outlets, and God placed him before everyone’s eyes as proof.”

Caring for the well-being of Zoroastrians, Jewish, Christians is an Islamic duty

The following is a full text of the speech delivered on August 21, 2017, by Ayatollah Khamenei, the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution, in a meeting with officials of Ayatollah Gholam-Reza Yazdi's Commemoration Congress.

Heartfelt connection with God guarantees the strength to resist enemies: Ayatollah Khamenei

Attention, appeal and heartfelt relation to the Lord of the universe guarantees the strength and authority of the forces who want to always stand and resist against the opposition. There is no other way to achieve this.

Those who oppress women's safety and professional activities must be prosecuted

If the situation is made in such a way that women do not have an opportunity, because of the amount of work and pressure from various other occupations, to work on their own ethics, religion, and awareness, this is oppression. If the woman does not choose, for herself, her husband, and her needs and desires are not considered in her marriage, this is oppression. Anybody who is responsible for this type of oppression must be prosecuted by the Islamic society and laws.

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The world remembers 64th anniversary of the west-sponsored coup in Iran

Peaceful, tolerant and socially oriented Islam was seen as a tremendous threat, at least in London, Washington, and Paris. It had to be stopped, even destroyed - resolutely and by all available means. Only the pre-approved Wahhabism, which was collaborative with the West and from the onset at least partially ‘co-produced’ by the British Empire, was singled-out and allowed to ‘bloom and succeed’.

Those who said you'd be captives forever were tossed into history's trash bin

On the anniversary day in remembrance of war captives' and their homecoming, Khamenei.ir publishes excerpts from Imam Khamenei's speech, made during an assembly with Iranians once held captive by Saddam's regime:

Do this if you wish to meet Imams: Ayatollah Khamenei's recommendations for pilgrims

This is the meaning of making a pilgrimage; a pilgrimage is a meeting. When I visit you in your home, we have actually come to meet; the same is true when visiting the Imams (pbut). One should greet them and salute them; such a spirit should also be upheld when visiting Infallible and the friends of God; one should offer greetings and salute them.

US Stop Meddling Elsewhere, Solve Issues of Non-Whites

If you are a powerful state, then go manage your own country! If you really care, then tackle the insecurities and violence on the streets of Washington DC, New York City, and Los Angeles! If you really care, go fix racial discrimination and the disastrous violations of human rights for both whites and blacks in your own country! Mind your own business, rather than meddling with other nations' affairs!

#MartyrsDefeatISIS

Families of Martyrs also on Front lines Defending Islam

What was the war in which US and Israel were badly defeated?

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Ayatollah Khamenei appoints new chairman and members of Council of Expediency

The liberation of Aleppo completely ruined U.S. calculations in region: Ayatollah Khamenei

The case of Aleppo, was so important that it completely changed and ruined all calculations of the US, Saudi Arabia, and others in Syria, as a result the defenders didn’t give their blood for nothing.

#WhiteSupremacy

Human values have been trampled upon in America: Ayatollah Khamenei

Today, as the Americans themselves acknowledge, the U.S. government and the U.S. system have drifted miles away from human values. Human values have been trampled upon in that country. There is discrimination, differentiation, racism and annihilation of human rights in America.

#InternationalYouthDay

Martyrdom of youth fighting against ISIS strikes blows to terrorists: Ayatollah Khamenei

Our border guards who are martyred in border areas have delivered many blows to the enemy. They have prevented the enemies from infiltrating, from hatching their plots and from implementing their corrupt measures. The youth who are martyred while fighting against DAESH and protecting the Imams' (a.s.) shrines- deliver a hundred blows to them. Before being martyred, they prevent them from advancing, they frustrate their goals and they create a disastrous situation for them: They "slay and are slain."

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Human Rights industry opts for turning a blind eye to Nigerian govt's massacre of its people

It is hard to envisage complaints made at the Human Rights Council of the United Nations. The Human Rights Council of the United Nations has Saudi Arabia as a member, a country which is certainly responsible in part at least for the persecution of Sheikh-Zakzaky and Nigerian Shiites.

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A Tragedy of Two Cities: the Herald of Human Rights was first to nuke a nation

Protect people's varying viewpoints and let them live in peace: Ayatollah Khamenei

The people have different tastes and viewpoints. Very well, we should allow the people to lead a peaceful life together despite their various tastes and viewpoints. Different tastes and viewpoints do not necessarily mean exchanging blows and being in conflict with one another. They can lead a good life next to one another and they can have various opinions.

#indigenousday

Strengthening indigenous identity is the way to confront imperialism: Ayatollah Khamenei

American authors have written at length about the pressures US exerted against the Natives. The English, too, hunted people, for pleasure, like animals and like kangaroos. They did not attach any value on the lives of human beings.

#visibleWomen

Without women social movements won't progress: Ayatollah Khamenei

I would say if women do not take part in a social movement of a nation, that movement will not gain any results. It will not succeed. If women take part in a movement with awareness and insight, that movement will accelerate.