Ayatollah Khamenei's Opinion on the Sacred Defense (1)

    During the Sacred Defense Era, everything that belonged to the country became subject to attack. Not only the borders of the country but the national identity of the country, the Islamic government of the country, the great Revolution of the people of Iran and the numerous values that these great people had placed within their sight were also attacked during the Sacred Defense Era. In that era, it was not only the Ba’athist regime of Saddam that had confronted us, rather it was a general and international war against the people of Iran. NATO helped Saddam, so did America and the Soviet Union of those days. Moreover, the Arab reactionary system deluged their financial and monetary help and their oil revenues towards them like a flood. As for their propaganda, it belonged and continues to belong to the Zionists. It used to work, day and night, against the Islamic Republic of Iran and in favour of them and it did so throughout the world.