Keep atmosphere calm for Gov't to let it perform duties - Emami Kashani

29 August 2008

Tehran(Friday Prayer)-KashaniProvisional Friday Prayer leader of Tehran said here Friday under sensitive world conditions, we need to keep the atmosphere calm and refrain from crisis making so that our government would manage to perform its duties.

According to an IRNA Political Desk reporter, addressing thousands of Tehrani worshipers at central campus of Tehran University, Ayatollah Mohammad Emami Kashani after commemorating the Government Week, referred to the various viewpoints expressed on government's performance.

He added in his second Friday Prayer sermon, "In a country with a seventy million strong population hearing such comments is natural, but let them be within the framework of proper criticism, free from aggressive and destroying tendencies."

This week's Friday preacher of Tehran further commemorated the martyrs of government, late President Mohammad Ali Rajaei and late Prime Minister Mohammad Javad Bahonar, referring to them as symbols of resistance, selflessness, and tireless efforts.

Elsewhere in his sermon, Ayatollah Emami Kashani referred to the convening of the 4th Leadership Experts Assembly in recent days, reiterating, "The Experts Assembly is ever ready for defense and safeguarding of the revolution's values, so that the fundamentals and truths would not get lost and the revolution would not be diverted from its right path."

Referring to the presence of over 80 representatives of the people at the Leadership Experts Assembly, he said, "No where else in the world such highly learned, pious people are gathered at an assembly, but alas, due to negative propagation of the enemies and pollution of the atmosphere that assembly has not been properly introduced in Iran and abroad."

Member of the Expediency Council and the Leadership Assembly focussing on Iran's negotiations with the 5+1 group, advised the Western countries not to disturb the atmosphere, since the Iranian leadership and nation would resist against any threat, military pressure and sanctions, defending its rights.

He emphasized, "Iran would suffice to nothing short of taking scientific usage of the nuclear energy for peaceful purposes." The interim Friday preacher of Tehran also noted that August 29th marks the anniversary of Imam Moussa Sadr's suspicious disappearance, expressing hope that he is still alive and God would keep that exalted personality to serve the Islamic World.