TEHRAN – President Ebrahim Raisi visited the western province of Kurdistan on Thursday, where he held several meetings and inaugurated many infrastructure projects. 

In Kurdistan, the president met local officials and people and inaugurated several major projects such as the Hamadan-Sanandaj railway megaproject. 

Addressing a group of people in Sanandaj, the provincial capital, Raisi pointed to the situation in the Gaza Strip. 

He stated that today the enemies of Islam have created painful conditions for the people of Gaza and the free people of the world, according to the official website of the Iranian presidency. 

“Today, we are witnessing two scenes; One is a dark, criminal scene of the most severe crimes, atrocities, aggressions and bombings against the people whose crime is only to defend their homeland, home and village, and the other is a beautiful scene of seeking rights, seeking justice and seeking independence that the oppressed people of Gaza have created,” Raisi added.

President Raisi described the scene set by the people of Gaza with their perseverance and standing as a cause for awakening in the world and said, “Today, the people of the world have clearly understood that the hegemony system led by the United States and accompanied by a few evil European countries do not think of anything but their own interests, and the honor of human beings and human rights have no value for them.”

Raisi said, “Today, the people of the world know that the main perpetrators of crimes are those who, on the surface, are the biggest claimants of human rights and in fact are the main violators of human rights. Today, thanks to the blood of the martyrs and the guidance of the wise leader of the Islamic Revolution, who always introduced the usurping Zionist regime as an aggressor regime, everyone has realized who the real violators and aggressors of human rights are!”

The Iranian president stated, “Today, everyone has realized that the foundation of the Zionist regime is murder, killing, destruction and aggression. Today, everyone has realized the correctness of the position of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and the nations have woken up and understood who is a friend and who is an enemy.”

Raisi also attended a meeting with Shia and Sunni clerics of the province held at Sanandaj Grand Mosque. In this meeting, he said said that the reason for the enemies' enmity with the Islamic Republic of Iran to be popular and to raise the flag of divine and Islamic values by this system.

“Despite all the conspiracies and intrigues of the enemies to stop the country, today, relying on the Almighty God and the unique capacity of the youth, the country on the path to growth and development, and the idea that the Islamic Republic will stop at the will of the enemies has completely disappeared,” he stated. 

He said, “The Islamic Republic of Iran is the only country that for the past 44 years, has stood by the cause of Palestine and the Holy Quds, because the policies of our system are based on divine and Islamic principles and values, and today's crimes by the Zionists in Gaza prove the correctness of the positions of the Islamic Republic of Iran regarding the Palestinian issue and the wrongness of the normalization of relations between some Arab countries with this criminal regime.”

President Raisi also delivered a speech before a group of people from Baneh County. In this speech, he said Palestine will certainly achieve victory. 

“I have no doubts that the front of right and Palestine will achieve victory,” he said. 

On the first day of his visit to Kurdistan, Raisi met with a group of families of the martyrs of this province.

In this meeting, while honoring the memory of the precious martyrs of the Islamic Revolution and the oppressed martyrs of Gaza, the President said that the security and authority of the country today owes to the blood of the martyrs and the efforts of the armed forces and said, “Today, in the shadow of this security and also the exemplary unity of Shia and Sunni in Kurdistan, the people of the province can think of an advanced Kurdistan.”

Referring to the growth and development of Kurdistan province in production, science and culture, President Raisi said, “Enemies and ill-wishers, who did not tolerate this growth and development of Kurdistan, targeted the security and unity of the province with conspiracies and sedition in last year's riots, but the people Kurdistan disappointed the enemies once again with empathy and unity.”

He described the families of the great martyrs as the raised flags of sacrifice and martyrdom in different parts of the country and emphasized the necessity of conveying the message of the martyrs to the ages and generations, especially the young generation of the country.

Raisi also referred to the heinous and horrific crimes of the Zionist regime in Gaza and said, “Today, the blood of the oppressed martyrs of Gaza has awakened human consciences and confirmed the principled positions of the Islamic Republic of Iran regarding the righteousness of the oppressed people of Palestine and the criminality of the usurper Zionist regime. We have no doubt that faith will definitely win in the battle with arrogance.”