TEHRAN Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei said on Saturday the officials of Iran's system are duty bound to regularly consider the cultural situation of the society.
Addressing members of the High Council of the Cultural Revolution (HCCR), Ayatollah Khamenei said the role of the culture is of paramount importance and extremely vital in determining the fate of a nation.
He said the culture was the basis of everyone's acts and behaviors in the society and added if the Islamic beliefs are accompanied by a high culture and discipline, favorable grounds would be prepared for achieving the aims of the Islamic Revolution.
Unhealthy cultural means in the various fields of arts and the abuse of the cultural means would undermine the human thoughts and beliefs, the Leader stressed adding that the society members are all duty bound to deal with such cases of cultural abuses.
He went on to say that the conception of culture from the viewpoint of Islamic is different from the Western conception of culture.
Further he stated that in the Western countries the officials are not worried about the cultural issues in the society so long as the politics or economy are not hit by the cultural phenomena emerging in the society, but Islam is not indifferent to any cultural issue due to the great attention it attaches to the fate of the human beings.
(IRNA)