Dr. Yahya Ghaddar’s speech at the Tehran conference, January 3, 2023, at the first international conference of the Leader Soleimani School

Dr. Yahya Ghaddar’s speech at the Tehran conference, January 3, 2023, at the first international conference of the Leader Soleimani School

In The Name of Allah the Most Gracious the Most Merciful

His excellency Dr. Ali Akbar Velayati

The family of the martyr, General Qassem Soleimani,

the founders and organizers of the first international conference of the Commander Soleimani School

Mr. General Ismail Qaani

His Eminence Sheikh Naim Qasim

The owners of grace and virtue, the owners of excellency and sovereignty

Ladies and Gentlemen

Dear Mujahideen, brothers in thought, soul and body,

Tehran shines and smiles at its future despite its targeting and attempts to sabotage its security and stability. Its sky is illuminated by suns emanating from the souls of the martyrs and lights from the spirit of the international jihadi leader, the martyr of AlQuds and the mujahid knight of resistance in the wilayat army, commander of the Quds Force, Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani.

Iran, the brilliant and persevering revolution, withstood and overcame adversities, overthrew conspiracies, and taught nations and peoples what steadfastness is like, and how dignity and the values of the ancient, leaping, active nation are embodied.

Iran adopts strategies of patience and insight, and resists steadfastly and solidly, with its exceptional awareness and struggle. It achieves miracles in its march to protect its people in the face of wars of all its forms, types, and branches. Iran, the Islamic Revolution, with its leadership, guards, army, and people is stronger, more capable, and succeeds in breaking the arms that extend to it and humiliating the colonial West, while it is the only one in leading the world and controlling the destinies of nations and peoples.

We meet today and Tehran is proud of its scientific, space and nuclear conquests and in the manufacture of superior, most modern and technical weapons. And she celebrates her righteous son, the son of the Islamic Revolution and the knight of the resistance – the martyr of AlQuds, a historical leader and an international fighter who was unyielding, nor did difficulties stand in his way, nor was he hindered by horrors.

He prepared himself in the school of the prophets, messengers, and companions, and he was a student at the hands of the leader, Ruhollah Imam Khomeini Q.S., as a brilliant student with broad horizons, deep awareness and insight, infused with faith and love for the family of the Prophet, a mujahid soldier in the wilayat army under the leadership of Imam Ayatollah Khamenei, with the rank of major general.

He sought and connected his days to his nights; he did not lose sight of chasing the enemies and pursuing them in all arenas. The platform of his resistance, his guidance and his concerns were the globe in its four directions, and where there was injustice and oppressed and assaulted peoples, he was with his comrades and his heroic students.

From Palestine to Damascus, Beirut and Baghdad, from Yemen to Libya, from Moscow to Venezuela and others.

Wherever the events were, and whether it was a battle or a war, he would be a leader fighter, planning, teaching and advancing the ranks.

The exceptional leader, the knight of resistance and the martyr of AlQuds, imbibed and kept the legacy of his grandfather, Imam Al-Hussein, peace be upon him, a love which he nursed with his mother’s milk. He grew up a Husseini, a Karbalai from an early age, and lived it with all his heart, so his spirit and conscience settled, and he complied with the teachings and directives of the pious leaders, to achieve goals and objectives.

Generations of mujahideen, commanders and cadres were brought up by him and witnessed his presence and admired his awareness and knowledge and imitated his methods, so it became entrenched in souls and inspirations and rose to the pinnacle of glories as a star, a scholar and an epistemological model that established the rules of leadership and management through awareness and practice.

In the memory of the knight, the international jihadist leader, we evoke his thought, his unique experience, and his exceptional values. We miss him physically, and his spirit has settled in us and his teachings and experience have taken root in our souls. Wherever we went and wherever we were, we dealt with data and developments, and we went through tests according to his words and deeds, and we follow his approach and in the light of the great values he embodied in his martyrdom.

The knight of resistance and the martyr of AlQuds will remain a shining light in our skies that illuminates our paths and continues our compass that points only to Al-Quds, the Sacred Al-Aqsa Mosque, the Church of the Resurrection and our sanctities.

The Knight of Al-Quds and its martyr will not settle for your comrades and students and for the resistances that you tested and prepared according to your model. No mujahid eyelids will tremble in fear or terror of the enemies, no matter how mobilized, allied, normalized, fabricated crises and wars, intensified the sieges and sought to starve the peoples of the resistance, so we and the axis have your example and your martyr comrades to follow, and your soul and their souls motivate us.

Sanctify us, O martyr, and our resistance, O knight, who achieves miracles, and our peoples are faithful to their covenant with you, and now fierce resistance is exploding with weapons, stabbing operations, trampling, and explosive devices along the West Bank and all over the occupied lands of the 48th. And the dawn breaks to expel the darkness and end its dark hours.

With the incentives of what has been achieved by the axis of resistance and its factions that have practiced the struggle on your hands, it will wear out and achieve victories and provide the reasons and conditions for the rise of nations and peoples and the uprising of continents in a global unity of struggle. In the experience of the Iranian Islamic Revolution, which coincided with its slogans, philosophy, and achievements, translating the books of heaven, the biography of the prophets and messengers, and the morals of the family of the Prophet, and the convoying of its goals with steadfastness and solidity.

The Iran of revolution became one of the most important pillars and platforms for generating a new world that is characterized by its features and draws from its values, principles, system, laws, and rules that control human life on the planet, according to the verses of God and His heavenly books.

Congratulations to you as a leader, a fighter, and a martyr who attained the good deeds and settled next to his Lord among his beloved prophets, messengers, and companions, and in the gatherings of the Prophet’s Family.

We remember you, we think, and we talk to draw lessons from your model and your illuminating experience, so that we can increase knowledge from your experience and your personality, so we will be able and achieve our goals.

We remain on your path and follow the goals of your martyrdom, we are marching, renewing the promise and covenant, not to leave the arenas until Palestine has been liberated, the nation has been united, injustice has been removed, and the edifice of oppression and aggression has collapsed.

Al-Fatihah is for the soul of Commander Soleimani, for the soul of Commander Abu Mahdi Al-Muhandis, and for the souls of all the martyrs of Palestine and the Arab and Islamic nation.

Dr. Yahya Ghaddar,

Secretary General of the Global Gathering in Support of the choice of Resistance.

Tehran on January 3, 2023.