DAR AL ISLAM: SUNNI & SHI'ITES MUST BE UNITED

West strategy on Islamic states based on causing discord: cleric

Substitute Friday prayers leader of Tehran Ayatollah Mohammad Emami Kashani here Friday said that the West's strategy on Islamic states and Iran is based on sowing discord.

Emami Kashani was addressing worshipers in Tehran University while delivering his second Friday prayers sermon.

"The West has found out that occupation of Islamic states would bring it to its knees and that the world has no fear of the West.

"The West pays money and piles up pressure to cause a strife between Islamic countries so that Muslims would kill each other and the West can obtain its desirable outcome thereby," Ayatollah Kashani said.

He said the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei has dubbed the current Iranian year as year of national unity and Islamic solidarity, stressing, "This will treat pains of the Islamic world.

"The arrogant world has concentrated on Iran. It even has produced a film against Iran because our country is the base and center of a religious thought which will lead to development of the region," he stated.

As President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said in the city of Natanz on April 9, the cleric said, Iran's peaceful nuclear program has reached a better point, adding, "Although the West knows Iran does not seek nuclear weapons which is not based on Islamic orders, it still intends to cause difference." "The West makes certain governments and Islamic states fear Iran. Enemies intend to cause horror and fan psychological warfare inside Iran.

"The Iranian nation has proved that it is united whenever its national interests is at stake," Emami Kashani said.

He stressed the importance of reinforcing unity among Shiites and Sunnis.


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