Leader: Beside Defense, We Also Need Assault Plan

Date: 18 April 2018 - 21:49

News ID: ۵۱۹۵۵

Kayhan Int’l Political Desk
TEHRAN – Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei here on Wednesday called for an "offensive” to confront a "big and complex intelligence war” being waged by the enemies against Iran.
"One of the main pivots of this war is to infiltrate and influence the calculation system of the state officials and people’s beliefs,” the Leader said in a meeting with a group of intelligence ministry staff and officials.
"In this war, besides defending and blocking openings of intrusion, an offensive must also be carried out and any negligence and oversimplification must be gravely avoided,” Ayatollah Khamenei said.
"We are now in the middle of a big battlefield, where on one side is the Islamic Republic and on the other, there is a vast and powerful front of the enemies,” the Leader added.
Intelligence services of the opposite side, Ayatollah Khamenei said, are the pivotal point of this confrontation, but despite having all the means, they have not been able to do "any damn important thing”.
"However, if we act negligently in this war, we will be defeated and if we oversimplify the confrontation, we will receive a blow.”
The Leader touched on different aspects of the enemies’ complex intelligence war, ranging from tapping into and stealing information to changing the calculations of the decision-makers and people’s beliefs in addition to causing economic and financial disturbance and security turmoil.
Ayatollah Khamenei said foreign intelligence services have played a role in fueling Iran’s currency crisis in an effort to destabilize the economy.
"When we look carefully at recent issues in the currency market, the footprints of foreign intelligence is evident,” he said.
"In this war, we have to stand up to the opposite front’s plans, and in order to overcome the enemy, in addition to the defense, there should be an assault plan, so that the playground is determined by our intelligence apparatus,” the Leader added.
Ayatollah Khamenei further said long-term planning with a projection of future events, and an accurate analysis of information is one of the ways for the intelligence establishment to confront the designs of the opposite front.
Elsewhere in his remarks, Ayatollah Khamenei said fighting corruption must be taken "very seriously and its main arteries targeted, because corruption leads to moral and psychological breakdown and collapse of individuals and the society”.
Corruption, the Leader said, is rooted in the spirit of wanting more, aristocracy and worship of luxury.
"Officials in the Islamic system cannot take it for granted that because authorities in other countries have various facilities, such cases are possible in the Islamic system.”