TEHRAN – Iran’s Parliament speaker Muhammad Bagher Ghalibaf said Sunday the late founder of the Islamic Republic, Imam Khomeini, was the first Muslim thinker to raise awareness about the dangers posed by the Zionist regime.
“Imam Khomeini was among the earliest Muslim thinkers to raise alarms about the threats posed by the Zionist regime,” he said at the mausoleum of Imam Khomeini to mark the 46th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution. 
Ghalibaf emphasized that a major reason for Imam Khomeini’s uprising against the Pahlavi regime in Iran was the Shah’s ties with the Zionists.
He expressed confidence in Khomeini’s promise that the liberation of Al-Quds by Muslims and the oppressed will eventually happen.
He said Zionism as the root of the corrupt system of global arrogance has been further disgraced in the eyes of the international community and will continue to fail in its objectives in Gaza and Lebanon.
Ghalibaf was among members of parliament who visited Imam Khomeini’s mausoleum to reaffirm their commitment to his ideals and to celebrate the Ten-Day Dawn period, which runs from February 1 to 11.
Judiciary chief Gholam-Hussein Mohseni-Ejei said at the mausoleum that Iran eliminated the grandeur of arrogant entities, and remains as a sovereign power in the world more than four decades after its establishment.   
The judiciary chief said that more than four decades after the Islamic Revolution, enemies have failed in their conspiracies to stop the Islamic Republic.
The enemies have also failed in their attempts to topple the system in Iran, and that is why they have waged a propaganda campaign to undermine the country’s achievements and to disappoint the Iranian people, he further said.  
However, the enemies have already admitted in their private talks that the Islamic Republic of Iran is powerful, he said, adding the Iranian people are not passive, and will defend their revolution and the Islamic Republic whenever necessary.