The Leader on Thursday called on clerics to thwart “the American and Zionist plot to create divisions” and avoid touching on divisive issues among Shia and Sunni Muslims.
Supreme Leader Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei in a meeting with the newly-elected members of the Assembly of Experts on Thursday set the priorities for the government officials in the new year.
The government officials should pay attention to three priorities which are resistance economy, continuing the accelerated pace of the country's scientific movement and cultural immunization of the country, nation and the youth.
'The officials should coordinate their economic activities and efforts in pace with resistance economy,' Ayatollah Khamenei said.
The Leader pointed to the second priority or continuation of accelerated scientific movement, and said, 'If we want power, dignity and authority in the world we should strengthen the science and the scientific movement should not come to a halt.
Ayatollah Khamenei reiterated that the scientific growth should be seriously pursued because one of its outcomes will be knowledge-based economy.
The Leader pointed to the third priority or cultural immunization, and said, 'For cultural immunization, we should first believe in this goal and then to do planning and make serious efforts for achieving that.'
Ayatollah Khamenei reiterated that if the government officials seriously put these three priorities on their agenda it will result in the country's real progress.
The Leader underlined that the ways for real progress of the country are fortifying the country's interior structure in economic, cultural and political fields, preserving the revolutionary characteristics, Jihadi movement, maintaining the national and Islamic dignity and identity and not being melted in the dangerous global re are three priorities for the country under the present circumstances which are the .
Ayatollah Khamenei, meantime, said that the ongoing wars in the Middle East are “totally rooted in political motivations'.
The Leader called on clerics to thwart “the American and Zionist plot to create divisions” and avoid touching on divisive issues among Shiite and Sunni Muslims.
“The enemies of Islam are trying to turn these differences into a religious strife so that they don’t end easily. We must not help this dangerous goal,” Ayatollah Khamenei told members of the Assembly of Experts in Tehran.
Earlier in the day and prior to the meeting with the Supreme Leader, the outgoing members of the Assembly attended the mausoleum of the late Leader of the Islamic Revolution Imam Khomeini to pay tribute to the Founder of the Islamic Republic.
The Assembly members laid a wreath of flower on the tomb of Late Imam Khomeini respecting the high aspiration of the Architect of the Islamic Revolution.
The final meetings of the outgoing Assembly of Experts took place on March 8-9 when they speculated on Iran's most recent and major developments.
Memebers of the fifth Assembly of Experts were elected in a recent poll.
The Assembly will convene with its new members on May 25.
source : abna24
