TEHRAN Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in a message on the second day of the 'Ten-Day Dawn' (January 31-February 10) celebrations, marking anniversary of the 1979 Islamic Revolution, said Iran is indebted to martyrs for its prestige and independence.

Ayatollah Khamenei's message, which opened a ceremony during which tombs of martyrs at Behesht Zahra Cemetery were showered with flowers, said that Iranian nation, too, owes its success to the firm will of the martyrs, who removed obstacles on the way of progress at the cost of their blood.

The Leader said that the enemies of the Islamic Republic would do better to remember that the memory of martyrs is always alive in the minds of the Iranian people and that conspiracies and other counter-ideological propaganda (of the enemies of the nation) would not make the Iranian nation oblivious of their martyrs.

(IRNA)