Enemy Trying to Undermine Iranians’ Hope About Future

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei warned about the enemies’ plans to undermine people’s hope and optimism about the future and the management of the country.
“They think about finding ways to make the people believe that they have no future, that the future is a dead end, and that they are stuck in an impasse,” he said in an address to the representatives of nomadic people last week, the text of which was published on Tuesday by Leader.ir.
The enemies of the Islamic Republic promote ideas to make people come to the conclusion that all paths are wrong and lead to a dead end and that the officials and managers in the country do not know how to run the country, according to Ayatollah Khamenei. 
Apart from enemy efforts, he added, such agenda is sometimes followed unintentionally and out of negligence by domestic media which undermine great works instead of applauding them.
“Anyone who undermines the people’s hope in the future … who undermines the people’s faith … who causes the people to lose their belief in the actions, efforts and plans of the officials of the country and causes them to become pessimistic is working to the advantage of the enemy, whether they do this knowingly or unknowingly,” he said. 
Such plans are part of what the Leader called the enemies’ “soft war”. 
“The enemy of the Iranian nation, of Islam, of the country and of the Islamic Republic is relying on a soft war today.”

Religious Motive

One of the most important aspects of the enemies’ soft war is to eliminate and weaken the people’s religious motive, which is the most important, highest motive, the Leader said. 
Religion was what helped the victory of the Islamic Revolution in 1979 and later immunized the country against hostilities, according to Ayatollah Khamenei. 
After the revolution, he said, the country faced the avarice of the enemies who wanted to tear the country into pieces, reinstate the United States’ domination and take the Iranian nation captive, but the founder of the Islamic Republic Imam Khomeini did not let them through religious faith. 
“Such is the role of religion.” 
Today, there is a political motive behind every action that is carried out against religious traditions and beliefs, he said. 
“Undermining religion, weakening religious traditions, slogans and principles, questioning these things and portraying them as unreasonable are weapons that the enemy uses.”
Against this backdrop, the Leader stressed, cultural work is needed more than anything else throughout the whole Iranian nation.