Cultural Figure Highlights Enemies’ Efforts to Infiltrate Iran
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – A prominent cultural figure warned against a plot hatched by Iran’s enemies to take advantage of a recent nuclear deal between Tehran and six world powers and infiltrate the Islamic republic.
Addressing a large congregation of worshipers here in Tehran on Friday, Hamid Reza Moqaddamfar described the enemies’ efforts to infiltrate the Islamic Republic as the latest threats posed against the country.
“The first characteristic of ‘the infiltration project’ is that the enemy exploits the nuclear negotiations and uses them as an opportunity to reach its goals,” he noted.
He went on to say that the enemy is seeking to suggest that since the nuclear issue was resolved by the negotiations between Iran and the Group 5+1 (Russia, China, the US, Britain, France and Germany), other issues can also be resolved by dialogue.
The prominent cultural figure added that anyone, who believes so will open the path of enemy’s infiltration.
Moqaddamfar further emphasized that the infiltration project involves various security, cultural, political and economic aspects, adding that the project is targeting Iran’s freedom and independence.
In similar remarks on Wednesday, Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei urged vigilance in the face of enemy ploys to gain a political and cultural foothold in Iran, warning that the consequences of such infiltration would be much worse than that of enemy’s economic influence.
“Economic and security infiltration is of course dangerous and has dire consequences, but the enemy’s political and cultural infiltration (into Iran) is a much more serious threat that everyone should be vigilant about,” Ayatollah Khamenei said in a meeting with hundreds of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) commanders in Tehran.
Describing the enemy’s attempts to find a way into Iran as one of the “major threats”, the Leader called on the IRGC forces to be wary of such peril.
As part of plans for cultural infiltration, the enemy has made heavy investment to gradually change the Iranian people’s beliefs, the Leader explained.
“In the political field, the aliens seek to infiltrate into the decision-making centers,” Imam Khamenei noted, warning that implementation of that plot will put the country’s decisions and approaches under the influence of foreigners.