Sunday, 9 January 2022 (YJC)_ Ayatollah Khamenei's speech on the anniversary of the uprising of the people of Qom on January 9th, 1978 began moments ago.
The speech of the Supreme Leader of the Revolution, Ayatollah Khamenei, on the occasion of the anniversary of the historic uprising of the people of Qom on January 9, 1978, began moments ago.
These words are broadcast simultaneously on the First Channel and the news of Sima and Radio Iran, as well as the virtual pages of the Leader of the Revolution.
The January 9, 1978 uprising is seen as a very important historical juncture because it acted a precursor to more mass demonstrations in other cities across Iran, shaking the foundations of the despotic Pahlavi regime before finally toppling it in the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
The uprising was a reaction to the publication of an article titled “Iran and the Red and Black Colonialism” on the Persian-language Ettela’at daily, which had brazenly desecrated Imam Khomeini — the Islamic Revolution’s late leader and founder of the Islamic Republic.
Many analysts have referred to January 9 uprising as the Islamic Revolution’s starting point.
Excerpts from the statements of the Supreme Leader of the Revolution are as follows:
- Some historical events that have deep themes and convey loud messages to the people of future generations. These must survive, and these must be talked about and talked about, and we must not let the dust of forgetfulness settle on these great events, and the incident of January 9th is like this.
- This incident and its aftermath is a deep sign of religious belief and is one of the explanations of the revolution. However, for some who have the hatred of the revolution in their hearts, the vision of the revolution is also questioned for them.
- The incident of January 10 and its sequels show the depth of the religious belief of the people and created the connection of an incident to an imitation authority of this incident. If the axis of this incident was not the Imam, nothing would have happened before this incident. No other person or movement could create such a situation in a city.
- Most of the important cases that have taken place in the last 150 years are like this, and the historical, social and revolutionary events that people came in and did as far as I can remember at the feet of a religious, militant, scholar and political authority. In between.
- From here, the secret of the enmity of the arrogant powers of the world with religious and political scholars, political religion, political jurisprudence and political world can be understood why they are enemies because their presence is anti-colonial and arrogant and therefore with the world and political authority. And political jurisprudence and political Islam explicitly say they are against, and this is a fact that should be taken into account.
- The role of religious zeal of the people in this case should not be ignored. The reason I rely on this is that propaganda and a broad cultural effort are being made to accuse things of religious zeal of irrational violence. This is not the case, and wherever there is religious zeal, it is accompanied by rationality. Religious zeal stems from insight, and insight is a branch of rationality and reflects the depth of religiosity.
- Many people who have religious zeal have a high level of rationality and the example was the late Imam and we did not see anyone like him but he was at the peak of rationality, he was wise, prudent and a scientist. Ayatollah Mesbah Yazdi, who was a student of the Imam, was like that.
- The uprising of January 9th is a brilliant combination of zeal and rationality. This was the purpose of Taghut, and the issue of writing that article in the newspaper Al-Inta'a was not an immediate issue and pursued a great goal. The aim was to break the sanctity of the Imam and to break the greatness that the Imam had in the eyes of the people and the people acted on. They wanted to degrade the position of the Imam among the people. This process would have continued until the position of the Imam in the eyes of the people was lowered and the center of the movement was destroyed, if that fist had not been hit hard in the mouth on the 19th of January.
- Carter spoke at the same time that Iran is the Pahlavi period of the island of stability and made a calculation error and one of these calculation errors was this word. Taghut felt the situation was right and could undermine the movement by beating the Imam who was in Najaf. So the work was based on a pre-designed calculation and map. The people of Qom disrupted this calculation with their actions. They conspired, but this conspiracy was to their detriment, and the people's connection with the Imam became stronger, and they strengthened the movement. The movement of the people ensured such a calculation and destroyed the enemy's plan.
- These miscalculations of the United States are still going on, and the example of this is the martyrdom of Martyr Soleimani, and they thought that with the destruction of this martyr, this great movement would be extinguished. Was? It was the work and hand of divine power that created this great movement and expression of devotion. The computing system of the enemy of Al-Haq is negligent and corrupt, and they can not have a correct assessment of the Islamic Republic, and they make wrong decisions, and they fail, and they fail after that.
- January 9 is not forgotten and is alive and will not be forgotten after this. After the incident of January 9, Qom, this movement of the Qomites was blessed and led to the days of the revolution. The great Imam returned to the country victorious and the Islamic Republic, which is a religious democracy, was established. 43 years have passed since that day, and this period has been accompanied by jihad, ups and downs, and all kinds of movements, and these events must be learned from, but a living nation does not look only to the past and to the requirements of its time and the task it's It is up to him and the next step to do what he has to do and the prospects to pay attention.