The Second Meeting of the Committee of Honoring the 23rd Anniversary of Imam Khomeini’s Demise

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 The Second Meeting of the Committee of Honoring the 23rd Anniversary of Imam Khomeini’s Demise

The second session of the the committee of honoring the 23rd anniversary of Imam Khomeini’s demise was held at the the holy shrine of Imam Khomeini by the attendance of the head of the central committee, the Interior Minister’s representative, deputy of the Shahid Fahmideh base and heads of committees, organizations and different ministries.

According to a report by Jamaran news agency, Hojatoelsam Mohammad Ali Ansari, secretary of the committee for Imam Khomeini’s commemoration by mentioning that honoring Imam is a difficult duty, said: “It is a spiritual, divine, religious and moral expectation from all of us to perform our duties some how that the lovers of Imam, during this opportunity, and in remembrance of Imam, could view a ceremony that new subjects are discussed within it. The most important point of the June 3rd (14 Khordad) ceremony is for the entire world to see that people have a unbreakable bond with the Imam.”

During this session, heads and representatives of different organizations gave their ideas and reports: “Asgharian” the cultural deputy of the committee for Imam Khomeini’s commemoration by mentioning that different programs are arranged in association with different organizations, counted some of the cultural committee’s programs.

Also, Dr. Mohammad Moqaddam, head of the foreign committee, announced the readiness of his committee and informed about their two phase of programs. “Letters have been sent to elites and professors throughout the world and soon the execution will start. We have also arranged a conference for the foreign guests which it’s details will be announced later.” said Dr. Moqaddam.

In continue, Dr. Hosseini, head of the University committee in a report said: “The Imam Khomeini’s commemoration week in academic enters, the day of youth and university’s oath, several conferences in the major universities, different exhibitions throughout the country and the presence of university elites at the June 3rd ceremony are among the top programs of the University committee.”

Also the armed forces committee informed about their especial programs. The religious minorities committee announced that along with the presence of the religious minorities at Jamaran and the holy shrine  and their attendance at the ceremony, the scholars of different religions will have a meeting with Hojatoleslam Sayyid Hassan Khomeini.

Hojatoleslam Khosravi, the research deputy of the  Institute for Compilation and Publication of Imam Khomeini's Works, declared that helping to produce concepts are among the most important programs of his department and said: “This year because of the coincidence of the anniversary of Imam Khomeini’s demise with the birth of Imam Ali its better for the programs to be about the Alavi Justice.”

Great committees have been formed in big cities and their activity reports were great. Every one is ready to hold a great ceremony as previous years.” said Sabbaq from the Coordination Council of Islamic Propagation.

Also the representative of the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance assured their readiness and cooperation with different cultural sections of the committee and also other committees and organizations.

Mr. Ershadmanesh, deputy of the Interior Minister and the representative of the Iterior Ministry spoke afterwards and delivered the report of the activities of the Interior Minister and said: “The Interior Ministry as the representative of the president will cooperate with all its force and deliver its services.”

Tehran’s municipality will be at the service of the pilgrims with all its forces.” said Baqersad, the representative of Tehran’s municipality along with delivering a report about their activities.

At the end of this session, Hojatoleslam Mohammad Ali Ansari, along with concluding all the subjects mentioned, by approving the emphasize of some of the members about having an especial view towards the life of Imam Ali during the 23rd anniversary of Imam Khomeini’s demise, gave his recommendation to the cultural, executive and safety sections of the ceremony.

Ansari by mentioning that the committee is ready to hold the ceremony inside the mausoleum, said: “But based on the latest arrangement it is going to be held at the Shahid Mustafa yard as the previous years.”

Ansari counted the June 3rd ceremony as the main program of Imam Khomeini’s commemoration and said: “The main program of main Khomeini’s commemoration will be the June 3rd ceremony and the speech of the Leader of the Islamic revolution. During the ceremony, and before the speech of the Leader of the Islamic revolution, Imam Khomeini’s grandson, Hojatoleslam Sayyid Hassan Khomeini will give a speech. Of course an especial program will be organized for the speech of the president in one of the nights of the Imam Khomeini’s demise ceremony.”