Remarks by Prince Turki Al Faisal at the Free Iran Rally in Paris July 1, 2017
NCRI - On Saturday, July 1st, The National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) held their annual “Free Iran” rally, which was attended by some 100,000 people, including hundreds of high ranking political supporters from the US, the EU, and dignitaries from around the world.
One of the speakers at the event was Honorable Prince Turki Al Faisal, former Saudi ambassador in the United States and United Kingdom. And the current chairman of King Faisal Foundation's Center for
Research and Islamic Studies in Saudi Arabia.
His speech was as follows:
In the name of Allah the Merciful
And peace and blessings be upon our Prophet Muhammad and his family and disciples
Mrs. Maryam Rajavi
President Ahmed Al-Ghozali
Ladies and gentlemen,
Peace, mercy and blessings of God be upon you.
I am honored and thankful once more for inviting me to participate in your annual meeting. It is the forum where the sons of Iran, who have left Iran due to the injustice of the Velayat al-Faqih rule, meet with representatives from many countries of the world who have suffered the terrorism of this government, the largest sponsor of terrorism. This meeting is to remind the world of the crimes of this regime against its citizens, its neighbors and of its threat to regional and global security and stability.
Dear brothers and sisters,
During last year’s gathering, I chronicled what brings us together, which is not only geography, but also the bonds of humanity. There were Arab tribes who settled in Persia and created family bonds with you as well as Persian masses who came for the Haj pilgrimage and established familial ties with us. We are also gathered behind the statement "There is no God but God, and Muhammad is the Messenger of God." We share a historical legacy that contributed to the advancement of human civilization.
Countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) in the Arab and Persian Gulf and their neighbor Iran lived in a state of coexistence until the Khomeini revolution of 1979. The conditions, then, changed from co-existence to confrontation. Khomeini and his followers sought to replace the logic of co-existence with confrontation, which became known as the policy exporting the revolution. The language of relations among countries was infused with the logic of so-called revolution, which hid an expansionist and aggressive agenda. The logic of revolution and coup made it difficult or rather impossible to come to an understanding. It replaces politics, diplomacy and policies of non-interference in the internal affairs of others. Moreover, the outward strategy of the Guardianship of the Jurist (Velayat-e Faqih) swapped the attitude of stability with a mindset of coup and turmoil.
Khomeini lived in exile between 1963 and 1979 due to his political conditions and his partisan spirit, and in this way he did not differ from the other groups of political Islam holding the spirit of coup and the desire to secede from the state. In Najaf, he lived to broadcast his pro-coup teachings, centered around the idea of Guardianship of the Jurist (Velayat-e Faqih) on the nation. He compiled these ideas in a book entitled "Islamic government."
Dear sisters and brothers,
The highest-ranking Shiite jurists have rejected this idea and have shown that Khomeini’s ideas contradict the fixtures of religious jurisprudence of the imams, whether in the city of Qom in Iran or in Najaf in Iraq, or everywhere else that Ja’fari clerics reside. Among the stories quoted about Khomeini when he started to take up residence in Najaf was that he shared a room with another student. A mosquito entered the room and his colleague suggested using insecticides to kill it. But in a Sufi atmosphere and while pretending to fear God in the pre-revolutionary days, Khomeini is said to have objected to this suggestion, saying that the mosquito must not be killed as it is a creature of God. Instead, he proceeded to use his robe to force the mosquito to exit the room.
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