TEHRAN The leader of the Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, here on Sunday termed martyrs and their families as The bright lights of history and the Islamic system, adding based on religious principles, there is no value loftier for a human being than to willfully sacrifice life and existence for sublime divine ideals. Addressing an audience of families of the martyrs of the armed forces and the Construction Jihad corps, the leader further highlighted the impact of martyrdom on the progress of nations, and stated any nation which learns the art of martyrdom is forever proud, not ever being overcome by any power.

This is because any nation which can bring its youth, men and women to come to terms with dying in the path of God, will never be affected by threats, seductions, propaganda and military campaigns by the enemies, and thus will never submit to the powerful. Stating that the martyrs are responsible for the Iranian nation's resistance to pressures by the world arrogance, Ayatollah Khamenei added The arrogance has failed and will fail in all its assaults on the Islamic Iran. Various plots of satanic powers including economic sanctions, propaganda campaigns, baseless accusations, efforts to create discord in the nation and encroachment on people's faith would be frustrated and this is all owed to the blood of martyrs.

The leader further referred to those attached to material attractions of life as the source of adversity for nations and governments, adding It's religion that secures the life and afterlife of the people, and saves a nation from its enemies. (IRNA)