November 4 – the Day of God

  That Sage of the Age who restored to Iran its religious, national, cultural, political, scientific, social, and economic prestige, meant whatever he said. He was not playing with words, as politicians who get elected for a term or two and then fade away from the scene do, with eyes only on the people’s vote, while the heart and intentions might not tally with what they speak.
       As a loyal servant of Prophet Muhammad (SAWA) and the Infallible Imams of the Ahl al-Bayt (AS), through sheer dedication to the dynamic teachings of Islam, he had achieved the status of Ijtehad (independent reasoning on the basis of the holy Qur’an and Hadith), and then risen to higher degrees to become the Wali-e Faqih or the Supreme Jurist, who is always cognizant of the ubiquitous presence of God the Omnipresent.
        Thus, it was divine inspiration which made Imam Khomeini use the term "Day of God” for the day on which the Den of Spies in Tehran fell to Muslim students, who by seizing top secret documents – even painstakingly piecing together those hastily shredded by the spies caught off guard – foiled a dangerous plot to overthrow the Islamic Republic System of Government, and in the process exposed to the whole world the satanic nature of the administrations that march in and out of the White House.
        Now we know why this Man of God, used another divinely-inspired term "Great Satan” to designate US administrations, whether Republicans or Democrats. He meant to say that Iranians and all the world’s oppressed should always be vigilant of the plots of the US and never allow it to infiltrate their societies, since humanity is faced with a monster that is more mischievous than its master, Lucifer the Outcast – dropping atomic bombs on Japan, overthrowing popular governments (e.g. Mosaddeq of Iran), massacring the people of Vietnam, reducing Afghanistan to thralldom, patronizing the illegal Zionist entity, creating through client regimes a string of terrorist outfits to destabilize Muslim lands and tarnish the image of Islam, and so on.
        That is the reason, the present Leader of the Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, as the loyal disciple of Imam Khomeini, said Iblis (Lucifer) only tempts mankind to commit sins and crimes, but the US as the Great Satan practically wreaks havoc on humanity and destroys all humanitarian values.
        He said our enmity is with the satanic nature of the US administrations and not with the American people, who are also oppressed by the regime in the White House, so when we say "Death to the US”, we mean the satanic elements that run it.
       Today, on the 36th anniversary of the fall of the US den of spies, thousands of students will be converging on what was wrongly called the American Embassy to rent the air with vociferous cries of "Death to the US”.
         It is heartening to note that a couple of days ago, a clear majority of Iranian legislators made it clear that the Islamic republic will never abandon the slogan of "Death to the US” despite July nuclear accord on Iran’s peaceful nuclear project.
        In a statement carried by news agencies, 192 members of Iran’s 290-seat parliament said: "The martyr-nurturing nation of Iran is not at all prepared to abandon the slogan of "Death to the US” irrespective of a nuclear agreement.”
       It added: This slogan chanted at the weekly Friday prayers and at public rallies has "turned into the symbol of the Islamic Republic and all struggling nations”.
        The MPs further said that in the aftermath of the July 14 nuclear deal, "the government and the Majlis (parliament) should act carefully in line with the wise guidance of the Honourable Leader, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei.”
        The Leader, while endorsing the deal in return for lifting of the illegal sanctions, has repeatedly warned against US infiltration, saying: "The US cannot be trusted. It is the main part of the problem in the region, not part of the solution.”
        Thus, in view of these undeniable facts, it is all the more necessary to keep alive the sweet memories of the fall of the US Den of Espionage – a move that Imam Khomeini had hailed as the "Second Revolution” since it safeguarded the ideals of the First Revolution that triumphed in February 1979.
        November 4 or the 13th of Aban is therefore an immortal day in the history of Iran, on which the Americans ordered the Shah to expel Imam Khomeini from Iran, little realising that one day the Father of the Islamic Revolution would return in resounding triumph to end American hegemony and the subsequent busting of espionage network on the anniversary of this day, which is rightly called "Day of Campaign against Global Arrogance”.  

 

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