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— 🇮🇷/🇵🇰 NEW: The Prime Minister of Pakistan, Shehbaz Sharif, met with Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, in Tehran

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— 🇮🇷/🇵🇰 NEW: Ayatollah Khamenei and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif agreed that Israel is a 'cancer in the region', and they discussed Pakistan and Iran's mutual support for Palestine and the resistance

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— 🇮🇷/🇵🇰/🇮🇱 NEW: In a conversation with Iran's Supreme Leader, Shehbaz Sharif reiterated that a Pakistani recognition of Israel is 'out of the question'

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Today marks one year since the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, wrote a letter to university students in America and the West.

We will publish the letter below.

— 🇮🇷/🇺🇸/🇪🇺 Ayatollah Khamenei's letter to youths and students in the West (1/2)

'In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.

I am writing this letter to the youth whose awakened consciences have motivated them to defend the oppressed women and children of Gaza.

Dear young students in the United States of America and the West, this is our message of empathy and solidarity with you.
You are on the right side of history, turning a new page.

You have now become part of the Resistance Front, and have begun a dignified struggle under the ruthless pressure of your government, which clearly defends the oppressive and merciless Zionist regime.
For years, the Resistance Front has been fighting with the same consciousness and sentiments that you possess today, in a place far from you.

The aim of this struggle is to halt the barefaced oppression perpetrated by a ruthless terrorist network known as the Zionists. They have, for years, inflicted the harshest pressure and massacres upon the Palestinian people after unlawfully seizing their country. The genocide perpetrated by the Zionist apartheid regime today is a continuation of decades of the most heinous and oppressive behaviour.

Palestine is an independent country with a diverse population of Muslims, Christians, and Jews, and it has a very long history. After World War II, Zionist capitalists, with the support of the British government, gradually brought thousands of terrorists into the country; they invaded its cities and villages, killed or expelled tens of thousands of people to neighbouring countries, seized their homes, markets, and farms, and established a state called 'Israel' on the occupied land of Palestine.

After this initial British assistance, the U.S. government has been the greatest supporter of this usurping regime. The United States has continuously provided political, economic, and military support to this regime to the extent that, with unforgivable recklessness, it has paved and aided the path for Israel to produce nuclear weapons.
From the very beginning, disregarding all moral, human, and religious values, the Zionist regime has adopted an iron fist policy against the defenceless people of Palestine. Since then, day by day, it has been escalating its brutality, terrorism, and oppression.

The U.S. government and its accomplices have not even lifted a finger against this state-terrorism and the ongoing oppression. Today, some of the statements made by the United States regarding the horrific crimes in Gaza are simply disingenuous.

The 'Resistance Front' (Hamas, Hezbollah etc.) emerged from this dark and despairing atmosphere, and the formation of the Islamic Republic of Iran expanded and empowered it.

The global Zionist elite — who owns most US and European media corporations or influences them through funding and bribery — has labeled this courageous, humane resistance movement as 'terrorism'.

Can one call a people a 'terrorist nation' for defending themselves on their own land against the crimes of the occupying Zionists? And is helping such a nation and strengthening its arms, an act of terrorism?

The oppressive leaders of global hegemony mercilessly distort even the most basic human concepts. They portray the ruthless, terrorist Israeli regime as acting in self-defense ­— yet they portray the Palestinian Resistance which defends its freedom, security and the right to self-determination, as terrorists!

I would like to assure you that today the circumstances are changing. A different fate awaits the important region of West Asia (Middle East). The people's conscience has awakened on a global scale, and the truth is coming to light.

Moreover, the Resistance Front has grown in strength and will become even stronger. History is turning a page.

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— 🇮🇷/🇺🇸/🇪🇺 Ayatollah Khamenei's personal letter to youths and students in the West (2/2)

Along with you, students from dozens of universities in the United States, other universities, and people from other countries have also taken a stand. The support and solidarity of your professors is a significant and consequential development.

This can offer some measure of comfort in the face of your government's police brutality and the pressures it is exerting on you. I too am among those who empathize with you young people, and value your perseverance.

The Quran's lesson for Muslims and all people of the world is to stand up for what is right: 

1. فَاستَقِم کَما اُمِرت
"So remain steadfast as you have been commanded"

2. لا تَظلِمونَ وَ لا تُظلَمون
"Do not oppress, nor be oppressed"

The Resistance Front advances by a comprehensive understanding and the practice of these and hundreds of other such commands — and will attain victory with the permission of God.

My advice to you is to become familiar with the Quran.'

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— 🇮🇷/🇵🇰 NEW: Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Chief of Army Staff Asim Munir also met with Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian

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— 🇮🇷/🇵🇰 Points that were raised during the meeting between Ayatollah Khamenei and Pakistan's Prime Minister:

– Ayatollah Khamenei emphasized the need for joint and effective measures between Iran and Pakistan to stop the crimes of the Zionist regime in Gaza, referring to Pakistan's 'special position' in the Islamic world.

– Ayatollah Khamenei expressed his satisfaction with the end of the war between Pakistan and India, and expressed hope for the resolution of differences between the two countries.

– Ayatollah Khamenei complimented Pakistan's good and strong position on the Palestinian issue over the past years, saying: 'While in recent years there have always been temptations for Islamic countries to have relations with the Zionist regime, Pakistan has never been influenced by these temptations.'

– Ayatollah Khamenei reiterated the great potential of the Islamic Ummah for greater power in today's world, stating that the security of the Islamic world can only be maintained through unity among Islamic countries.

– Khamenei called the Palestinian issue the 'primary issue' of the Islamic world.

– Khamenei stated that the relations between Iran and Pakistan have always been warm and brotherly, and referred to Pakistan's good positions during the war against Iraq as an example of these brotherly relations.

– Khamenei assessed the current cooperation between Iran and Pakistan as 'lower than expected', stating that relations and cooperation must improve in all fields.

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—❗️🇮🇷/🇮🇱/🇺🇸 BREAKING: President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu had a 'very tense' phone call, in which Trump reiterated that the United States believes in a diplomatic solution with Iran — while Netanyahu pushed for U.S. support for an Israeli strike on Iran

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