Message of His Eminence Ayatollah Seyyed Mojtaba Khamenei Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution

On the Occasion of the National Day of Fighting Against Global Arrogance

بسم‌الله الرّحمن الرّحیم

In the Name of God, the Most Compassionate, the Most Merciful

Today is the National Day of Fighting Against Global Arrogance, and a day that brings together a collection of milestones in the confrontation between the front of truth and the front of falsehood, and between the front of the oppressed and the front of the oppressor. It may be said that this year, on the thirteenth of Aban, the Iranian nation knows its duty toward criminal America more clearly and transparently than in any other year; however, reviewing the roots, reasons, and milestones of America's ever-increasing hostility and the Iranian nation's steadfast confrontation against it is a lamp illuminating the way for the future of this path.

The starting point of America's oppression against the Iranian nation goes back more than seven decades; to the time when it staged the coup of the twenty-eighth of Mordad to continue plundering the nation's resources and assets, especially oil. The following decades, until the victory of the Islamic Revolution, were also a period in which American rulers made extensive efforts to pillage the assets of the Iranian nation. Along this path, by establishing SAVAK and imposing a heavy security atmosphere on society, they opened the hand of the tyrannical government of that time to take action to suppress any protest movement. On the eve of the glorious victory of the Islamic Revolution, they also used all kinds of tricks to preserve their puppet regime. From their hostile behavior in the period after the victory of the great revolution of the Iranian nation, one can present a long list of their anti-people actions, including support for separatist groups and coup plotters and the spiteful hypocrites who, in addition to scientific, political, and social elites, ruthlessly martyred masses of ordinary people; direct and all-out support for the Baath Party in the first imposed war; the massacre of civilians on a passenger plane; extensive, long, and heavy economic sanctions; the planning and support of numerous riots and seditions and even arms support for them; the assassination of General Soleimani, the national hero of Iran and the Islamic Ummah; the theft of the property and assets of the Iranian nation in various countries; and finally, direct military aggression in the second and third imposed wars and the martyrdom of a large number of elites, scientists, commanders, and a great multitude of the oppressed people of Iran, from infants and young children to the elderly, and at the head of them all, the great and eminent leader of the Islamic Revolution, may God sanctify his pure soul.

At all these stages, the arrogant leaders of America and their minions have always sought to impose their dominion and subjugate Iran, and even in the latest versions of this bullying, they have set aside all the false and deceptive international formalities and shamelessly seek the disintegration of the country, the kneeling of the nation, the collapse of the system, and the destruction of Iran's ancient and authentic civilization. And of course, at every stage, they have been confronted with the solid wall of field realities and the firm rocks of the will of the zealous Iranian nation, and they have placed the result of their miscalculations and arrogant delusions in the basket of heavy costs on the shoulders of the American people and the puppet governments of the American state.

Now, the story of America's age-old enmity with the Muslim nation of Iran, and the zealous resistance of all Iranians against this enemy, has reached a point where not only the thirteenth of Aban but all days and hours have become days of standing and struggling against the Great Satan. Now, the scene of the Persian Gulf, especially the Strait of Hormuz, while it has recorded the falsity of the myth of America's invincibility, demonstrates the weakness and abjectness of governments that rely on a force other than their own nation, and the disloyalty and impotence of great powers in defending their puppet governments. Iran's exercise of management over the Strait of Hormuz and the destruction of American military bases in the countries of the region, although it was a reaction to America's aggression and crime in the third imposed war, is at the same time considered an initial jihad against arrogance on a regional scale, which, in the event of a repetition of aggressions, will take on far wider dimensions. This sign of power, alongside the unity of the fronts of the front of truth and the wise and powerful epic-making of the front of resistance from Palestine and Lebanon to Iraq and Yemen, is a clear and hope-inspiring dawn of the elevation of the banner of the front of truth and the paving of the ground for a new world order; for whenever the front of truth has trust, steadfastness, and sacrifice, the front of falsehood, with whatever power and ability and whoever and whatever it may be, will not be able to withstand it, and retreat and defeat are its definite outcome:  اِن‌َّ الباطلَ کانَ زَهوقا "Indeed, falsehood is ever bound to vanish."

Praise be to God, the Iranian nation has well learned great lessons from the teachings of pure Muhammadan Islam, peace be upon him and his family, and the knowledge of the Islamic Revolution and the school of its wise leaders, the great Khomeini and the martyred Khamenei, may God elevate their noble stations, and day by day, with the realization of divine promises, its faith in the truth of this path has deepened. Today, as a result of the self-made scandal of the arrogant, the power and dominion of America, in both dimensions of hard military power and soft international power, has suffered an irreversible decline, and the process of its collapse has been accelerated.

If there are still those who have a faint hope for a change in behavior or partisan and factional shifts in the system of domination, or who imagine that by giving concessions to America they can dissuade it from enmity with the Iranian nation, they are greatly mistaken. This false notion is ingratitude toward the great conquests that the Muslim nation of Iran has achieved under the shadow of trust, steadfastness, and Fighting. The wish of the Great Satan is the unconditional surrender of the Iranian nation, and the slightest inclination toward surrender to the domineering enemy will squander the great capital that has been obtained by the blessing of the blood of the martyrs and through the sacrifice of the individuals of the nation, and will make the arrogant enemy more emboldened for greater excess and subsequent wars and aggressions.

The only way to reach the point of absolute deterrence is the continuation of the strategy of "Iran, ever stronger" on the path of all-round progress; and integrity, unity, and social cohesion are the main element of success on this path, which must prevail over every individual and social word and deed of the nation and the officials in charge. In this regard, while the nation's support for the officials is necessary, the continuation and enhancement of the officials' attention to doubled and jihadi service and sincerity with the people and securing their livelihood, comfort, and material and spiritual growth and preserving their dignity and independence is also important.

The vanguard segment for building the bright and glorious future of dear Iran are our youth, university students, and school students, who must continuously seek to conquer and destroy the dark den of "despair and hopelessness and the cannots" and to conquer the bright house of "hope and we can." The requirement of this mission is extraordinary agility and being equipped with all kinds of weapons of knowledge and piety and skill and ethics and will and extraordinary effort, and "covenant-keeping" to reach lofty goals.

It is hoped that by God's grace and the prayers of our master, may God Almighty hasten his noble reappearance, the Iranian nation will experience victory, felicity, and all-round progress as soon as possible, and the means for the ever-greater and faster decline of the dominion of the Great Satan will be provided. اِنّهم یَرونَهُ بعیداً و نَراهُ قریباً "Indeed, they see it as far off, but We see it as near."

Seyyed Mojtaba Hosseini Khamenei

November 4, 2026