A nation's tears and resolve: Admired by the free, feared by the arrogant

Your ardent hearts' warmth, your tearful eyes, and the steadfast will of the tens of millions, who stretched across tens of kilometers in Tehran, Qom, Mashhad, and other cities and villages, have filled the Iranian nation's friends and the world's free people with admiration, while throwing Iran's arrogant enemies into bewilderment, rage, and fright.

From Imam Sayyid Mojtaba Khamenei's message on July 17, 2026