Iran Leader: Enemies seek to set Iranians against establishment, to no avail

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says the enemies are seeking to put the Iranian people against their government and the Islamic establishment but all to no avail.

“Western countries mainly pin their hopes on the popular protests in order to overthrow the Islamic Republic,” Ayatollah Khamenei told a ceremony marking the 33rd anniversary of the passing of Imam Khomeini, the founder of the Islamic Revolution, in Tehran on Saturday. 

“They hope to set people against the Islamic establishment, by launching psychological warfare, recruiting mercenaries, and staging media campaigns against Iran,” he said.

However, the Leader noted, “the enemies are making miscalculations as they did before” by erroneously believing that they can cause public dissent in the country.

They make such mistakes as they get “wrong advice” from the “Iranian traitors" who say "count on the Iranian people to rise up against the Islamic establishment,” the Leader said. 

The enemies are "naive to suppose that people have lost their faith in religion and the clergy,” he added. 

Ayatollah Khamenei said the Iranians’ “belief and interest in the Islamic Revolution and the religion has grown even more than the first day,” citing the funeral procession held for Iran’s top anti-terror commander Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani.

“Iran will not reach an impasse” despite some who claim otherwise on social media, he added. 

The Leader also said the West has plundered nations all the way from Asia to Africa and South America for the last three centuries.