The leader made remarks while speaking during a meeting with Iranian officials in charge of the 2017 Hajj in Tehran on Tuesday.
Ayatollah Khamenei stressed that the annual Hajj pilgrimage provides the best opportunity to thwart the propaganda campaign against the Islamic Republic.
Hajj opportunity is the best advertisement platform to establish contact with the world’s people and neutralize the other side’s propaganda,” the Leader pointed out.
Ayatollah Khamenei said that there was a very dangerous, active, and well-equipped anti-Iran front.
With the extent of negative propaganda against Iran, the existence of ambiguities in the minds of ordinary people is “natural,” Ayatollah Khamenei noted, adding, however, that authorities had to remove those ambiguities by establishing contact with people.
“The Islamic establishment has enough capacity and capability to stand against and counter this front, and the Hajj opportunity is the best advertisement platform to establish contact with the world’s people and neutralize the other side’s propaganda,” the Leader emphasized.
Pointing to Riyadh regime’s steps to cancel or undermine Iranian ceremonies on the sidelines of the Hajj and said, “Today, in the Muslim world, there are numerous intellectuals who want to hear the truth from the Islamic Republic.”