Hawzah News Agency (Qom, Iran) – The text of Grand Ayatollah Nasser Makarem Shirazi’s statement for international Quds Day is as follows:

In the Name of Allah, the most compassionate, the most merciful

It’s been nearly 40 years since Muslims began holding rallies on International Quds Day on the last Friday of Ramadan following late Imam Khomeini’s (ra) initiative. These magnificent rallies do not let the issue of Palestine be forgotten while the Zionist regime, with its full capacity, is trying to legitimatize its inhumane actions in occupying the Palestinian territories and make international community officially recognize the Israeli regime.

This year’s Quds Day rallies send a stronger message since Iran’s revolutionary guards (IRGC) successfully shoot missiles at ISIS terrorists in Deir ez-Zor, Syria, last week.

These rallies together with Iran’s recent missiles attack on ISIS play pivotal roles in providing the security of the region, since everybody realized the fact that any kind of warmongering actions, be it in the form of establishing an Arab Nato or any other way, will have dire consequences for those who carry out such plots.

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