Islam fulfills contemporary demands against cultural invasion

Iranian President, Ayatollah Dr. Seyyed Ebrahim Raisi on Wednesday morning, October 12, speaking at the opening ceremony of the 36th International Conference of Islamic Unity, congratulated the auspicious birth anniversary of the Prophet of Islam (SA) and Imam Jaafar Sadeq (AS), welcomed the guests from all over the world and said Islam, by raising the question about what strategies should be used to promote unity within the Islamic Ummah in this conference and what are the necessary predictions to prevent division and separation? He said: Modern man can create a happy life for himself by relying on God, self-confidence and religious teachings, reported Taqrib News Agency (TNA).

Imam Khomeini invited Gorbachev to embrace Islam in 1989 letter

Two years before the fall of the Soviet Union, its leader Mikhail Gorbachev would receive a letter from the Imam Khomeini, the founder of the Islamic republic of Iran, inviting him to embrace Islam. In the letter Imam said that your main problem is the prolonged and futile war you have waged against God, the source of existence and creation.

Imam Khomeini: This week we lost the late Mr. Bāhonar who was a committed scholar and teacher.

Sahifeh-ye-Imam, V 18, P 67

Imam did not like to use pulpit out of respect for great scholars.

Narrated by: Sayed Ali Khamenei, Supreme Leader of Islamic Republic--Taken from: Shahed Journal, no. 195

Imam Khomeini sought welfare of oppressed nations during Nowruz

Imam Khomeini, the late founder of the Islamic Revolution, used to attract the people’s attention during the Nowruz towards the problems facing the Muslim world.

Imam Khomeini warned against enemies’ plots of sowing strife or seeds of discord

Imam Khomeini’s Letter to Gorbachev revisited

On January 3, 1988, a historic letter was delivered from Imam Khomeini to President Mikhail Gorbachev. This letter has since been entered into the annals of history as a piece of remarkably insightful and indeed prophetic writing from one head of state to another.

China berates US over double standards on free speech after Assange verdict