Leader Khamenei: Enemies Cannot Hurt Iranian People

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says the fact that millions of people celebrated the 40th anniversary of the Revolution, once again proved that the enemies cannot hurt the Iranian nation, Press T.V reported.

“Of course, the adversaries would deny that millions of people showed up but they do know and they do understand that as long as a nation holds its ground like this, enemies can do it no harm,” Ayatollah Khamenei told a crowd of thousands of people.

 Millions of Iranians took to the streets last week to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution, much to the dismay of US leaders who had said the Islamic Republic would not survive to see the event.

Every year on February 11, the Iranian nation turns out in droves to highlight support for the Revolution which ended 2,500 years of monarchical rule in Iran and replaced the US-backed Pahlavi regime with an Islamic Republic.

This year, demonstrators in many cities braved the cold weather as they descended on main crossroads to renew their allegiance to the country’s Islamic principles at a time of rising economic and political pressure coming from the US.

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