Imam Khomeini Made Palestine Muslim World’s Number1 Issue: Official

IQNA – An Iranian official said highlighted Imam Khomeini’s revolutionary view on the issue of resistance, and said the late founder of the Islamic Republic turned Palestine into the Muslim world’s number one issue.

Ali Reza Moaf, the research and planning deputy of the Islamic Development Coordination Council, made the remark in an interview with IQNA ahead of the 36th anniversary of Imam Khomeini’s demise.

He noted that before the victory of the Islamic Revolution in Iran, there had been attempts at consigning the issue of Palestine into oblivion but Imam Khomeini thwarted these attempts.

He said that with Imam Khomeini’s initiative of naming the last Friday of Ramadan as the International Quds Day and with the principled and continuous policy of the Islamic Republic in pursuing the issue of Palestine and Quds, today it has become the first issue of the Islamic world.

Moaf also referred to the upcoming Hajj pilgrimage and highlighting Imam Khomeini’s tansformative view of the Hajj, said Imam Khomeini brought to prominence the political and anti-arrogant dimension of Hajj.

He said it is necessary to use the Hajj season as a tool of public diplomacy to reveal the true face of American human rights.

If Muslims appreciate the importance of Hajj, this ritual can become a unique opportunity for Bira’at min-al-Mushrikeen (disavowal of disbelievers), Moaf went on to say.

Ayatollah Ruhollah Moussavi Khomeini, better known as Imam Khomeini, engineered Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution, which led to the overthrow of the US-backed Shah of Iran.

Born in 1902, he grew to become the iconic leader of the Iranian nation’s struggle in the 1970s against the centuries-old monarchical tyranny.

Imam Khomeini passed away on June 3, 1989, at the age of 87.

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