DUSHANBE, February 21, 2011, Asia-Plus — Muhiddin Kabiri, chairman of the Islamic Revival Party (IRP) also member of the Majlisi Namoyandagon (Tajikistan’s lower chamber of parliament), met with Supreme Leader of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei in Tehran yesterday on sidelines of the 24th International Conference on Islamic Unity, according to IRP’s headquarters in Dushanbe.
“In the course of the talks, Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei stressed that the latest protests in Middle East are closely connected with Islamic movements,” said the source, “Khamenei said that only the enemies of Islam try to portray these protests in the Islamic nations as non-Islamic, while Islam has been and will be the guide of these protests.”
In the meantime, according to Iran’s news agency, IRNA, the 24th International Conference on Islamic Unity sponsored by the Tehran-based World Assembly fro Proximity of the Islamic Religions brought together 400 scholars and religious leaders from the Islamic nations.
The Supreme Leader termed the current situation in the Muslim World as critical and said that the religious leaders and scholars of the Islamic states are expected to help strengthen the religious faith of the people and encourage them not to be intimidated by the false glory of the United States with reliance upon the help of Almighty God, IRNA reports.
Khamenei drew the religious leaders’ attention to accurate leadership of the potentials of million-strong movements in the Islamic states protesting the current state of affairs and cautioned them against pinning hope on getting financial aid from the United States rather than rely on potentials of the Muslim nations and the promised assistance from Almighty God, according to IRNA.
