Assembly of Experts epitome of Islamic democracy: Leader

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says that the Assembly of Experts is the epitome of Islamic democracy.

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21 May 2024

EghtesadOnline: The 6th edition of the Assembly of Experts opened on Tuesday morning. On this occasion, the Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei issued a message.

In this message, the Leader of the Islamic Revolution called the Assembly of Experts the epitome of Islamic democracy and invited the awakened consciences of the whole to think about and pay attention to the comprehensive and stable plan of Islamic governance.

In the Islamic system, the goals are divine, the Leader stressed.

Referring to the ongoing US-backed Israeli genocidal war in the Gaza Strip, Ayatollah Khamenei said that the support of the so-called liberal Western governments for Israel reveals what freedom and human rights truly mean for those states.

Elsewhere in the message, the Leader once again expressed condolences over the martyrdom of Iranian President Ebrahim Raeisi and Friday Prayers leader of the city of Tabriz Seyyed Mohammad Ali Al-e Hashem, praying to God to bestow divine forgiveness and blessings on them.

Iranian President Ebrahim Raeisi and Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian have martyred in a helicopter crash in the northwestern province of East Azarbaijan.

The helicopter carrying President Raeisi and his accompanying delegation crashed on Sunday in the Dizmar forest, nestled between the cities of Varzaqan and Jolfa in East Azarbaijan Province.

It was transporting Raeisi, Amir-Abdollahian, East Azarbaijan Governor Malek Rahmati, Friday Prayers leader of the city of Tabriz Seyyed Mohammad Ali Al-e Hashem, and a member of the president’s bodyguard team Mahdi Mousavi. The helicopter’s pilot, co-pilot, and crew were also among others on board the chopper.

President Raeisi and his accompanying delegation were returning from a ceremony to inaugurate a dam on the Aras River with Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev.

Following the tragic martyrdom of Iranian President Ebrahim Raeisi, the Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei declared a 5-day mourning in Iran. / Mehr