TEHRAN - Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has highlighted the vitality of a “long-term planning” for the country’s seminaries, urging the establishment of a “center for strategic studies” for this purpose. 

The Leader made the comments during a meeting with members of the Supreme Council of Seminaries on Sunday morning. 

“In such a long-term planning, goals should be unambiguously clear, attainable, and scheduled in such a way that the plan is quantitatively assessable and flexible as well,” the Leader noted.    

The long-term blueprint should be transformative in nature, what the Leader called “seminary development plan.” 

To realize the agenda, there is a need for a “center for strategic studies,” Ayatollah Khamenei stressed. 

“A center for strategic studies composed of bright seminary elites should be established where the development plan as well as other strategic seminary plans can be compiled.” 

Depicting a long-term roadmap should also pursue the goal of “feeding” the Islamic establishment, the Leader stated.

He added, “The seminary helps observe the Islamic ruling.” 
The Leader drew his comments to a conclusion by listing a number of priorities for seminaries. 

“Avoiding quasi-state bureaucracies, holding sessions between seminary students and managers, creating a Qur’an-fostering atmosphere among seminary students, spotting top talents, promoting reading, particularly in the field of the history of seminary science and interpretation, nurturing eloquent and writer missionaries, and cyberspace missionaries.”

Following the Leader’s comments, Ayatollah Ostadi, secretary of the Supreme Council of Seminaries, briefed the Leader on the body’s programs and the challenges it is grappling with.

Also, Hojatoleslam E’rafi, head of the seminary council, reported on what the council has achieved over the past years. 

AK/PA