Khatami: People's Vigilance, Greatest Danger to Enemies
June 28, 1999 - 0:0
TEHRAN President Mohammad Khatami here Saturday night said that Iranians are anti-dictatorial and independence-seeking people who paved the way for realization of the Islamic revolution in order to determine their own fate and constitute a popular government, IRNA said. The president made the remark at a ceremony held in commemoration of martyrs of June 28, 1981 bomb blast at the headquarters of the Islamic Republic Party in which the then chief justice of the supreme court Ayatollah Mohammad Hussein Beheshti and 72 officials of the revolution were martyred.
A number of cabinet ministers and their deputies, several representatives of the Islamic Consultative Assembly (Majlis) and some senior political-military officials were among those martyred in the explosion caused by an agent of the terrorist Mujahedin Khalq Organization (mko). The president told the audience that people's vigilance is the greatest danger being sensed by enemies of the revolution, adding that vigilant people will never allow their homeland, religion and resources be plundered.
Underlining the people's freedom to question the administration, he said thoughts cannot be suppressed because God has created a searching and exploring creature. Therefore, he stressed, thoughts can be constrained for a certain period of time but not for ever, adding that in dictatorial regimes thoughts would be turned into underground movements. Referring to the MKO and Zionists as the main enemies of the Islamic Revolution, President Khatami said that the MKO by assassinating those who serve the people and the Zionists through every other means, including the dissidents, tend to exert pressure on the revolution.
Meanwhile, Majlis speaker noted that what happened on the seventh of the Iranian month of Tir (June 28) guaranteed and reinforced the Islamic Republic. June 28, 1981, marks the anniversary of the bomb blast at the headquarters of the Islamic Republic Party in Tehran by the terrorist Mujahideen Khalq Organization (MKO) in which more than 72 ranking officials and Majlis deputies were martyred.
A number of cabinet ministers and their deputies, several representatives of the Islamic Consultative Assembly (Majlis) and some senior political-military officials were among those martyred in the explosion caused by an agent of the terrorist Mujahedin Khalq Organization (mko). The president told the audience that people's vigilance is the greatest danger being sensed by enemies of the revolution, adding that vigilant people will never allow their homeland, religion and resources be plundered.
Underlining the people's freedom to question the administration, he said thoughts cannot be suppressed because God has created a searching and exploring creature. Therefore, he stressed, thoughts can be constrained for a certain period of time but not for ever, adding that in dictatorial regimes thoughts would be turned into underground movements. Referring to the MKO and Zionists as the main enemies of the Islamic Revolution, President Khatami said that the MKO by assassinating those who serve the people and the Zionists through every other means, including the dissidents, tend to exert pressure on the revolution.
Meanwhile, Majlis speaker noted that what happened on the seventh of the Iranian month of Tir (June 28) guaranteed and reinforced the Islamic Republic. June 28, 1981, marks the anniversary of the bomb blast at the headquarters of the Islamic Republic Party in Tehran by the terrorist Mujahideen Khalq Organization (MKO) in which more than 72 ranking officials and Majlis deputies were martyred.