Iran's 13 Aban: US-Iran Tensions from the 1953 Coup to the Strait of Hormuz

In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.

Today is the National Day of Fighting Global Arrogance and a day that brings together a series of turning points in the alignment of the righteous front against the false front, and the oppressed front against the oppressors within itself.

Perhaps it can be said that this year, on the 13th of Aban, the Iranian people know where they stand with criminal America more clearly than in any other year.

But reviewing the roots, reasons, and turning points of America's growing hostility and the firm alignment of the Iranian people against it lights the way forward on this path.

The starting point of America's oppression of the Iranian people dates back more than seven decades.

That was when it carried out the coup of August 19 to continue plundering national resources and wealth, especially oil.

The decades that followed, up to the Islamic Revolution's victory, were also a period when America's rulers made great efforts to plunder the assets of the Iranian people.

Along this path, by establishing SAVAK and imposing a suffocating security climate on society, They gave the tyrannical government of that time more room to suppress every protest movement.

Even on the eve of the glorious victory of the Islamic Revolution, they used every kind of trick to preserve their puppet government.

As for their hostile conduct in the period after the great victory of the Iranian people, one could give a long list of their anti-people actions, including support for separatist groups and coup plotters, and the ruthless hypocrites who, besides scientific, political,

and social luminaries, mercilessly martyred countless ordinary people.

Direct and all-out support for the Ba'ath Party in the First Imposed War, the massacre of civilian passengers aboard a commercial airliner, wide-ranging, prolonged, and severe economic sanctions, inciting and supporting riots and numerous plots, and even providing them with weapons,

the assassination of General Soleimani, Iran's national hero and a hero of the Islamic world, the theft of the Iranian people's assets and property in various countries, and Ultimately, direct military aggression in the Second and Third Imposed Wars and the martyring of a great many of Iran’s elites, scientists, and commanders,

and countless oppressed Iranian people, from newborns and young children to the elderly, and foremost among them, the towering leader of the Islamic Revolution.

At every stage, America’s arrogant leaders and their allies have always sought to impose their dominion and force Iran to surrender, and even in the latest versions of this bullying, they have cast aside all the false, deceptive international conventions and appearances and brazenly sought to partition the country,

bring the nation to its knees, and collapse the system and destroy Iran’s ancient, authentic civilization.

And of course, at every stage, they have encountered the solid wall of reality on the ground and the steadfast rock of the valiant Iranian people’s resolve, and placed the consequences of their mistaken calculations and imperial delusions in the basket of heavy costs borne by the American people and the

governments installed by the U.S. government.

Now the story of the longstanding hostility of America toward the Muslim nation of Iran and the courageous resistance of all Iranians against this enemy has reached a point where not only November 4 but every day and every hour has become a time for standing firm and fighting the Great Satan.

Now, the Persian Gulf, especially the Strait of Hormuz, has exposed the myth of America’s invincibility, and revealed the weakness and humiliation of governments that rely on a force other than their own people, as well as the great powers’ disloyalty and inability to defend their puppet governments.

Iran’s control of the Strait of Hormuz and the destruction of U.S. military bases in countries across the region, although a response to America’s aggression and crimes in the imposed Third War, was, at the same time, considered an initial jihad against imperialism on a regional scale,

which, if these acts of aggression are repeated, will take on far broader dimensions.

This sign of strength, alongside the unity of the camp of truth and the Resistance Front’s shrewd and commanding feats from Palestine and Lebanon to Iraq and Yemen, are a bright and hope-inspiring sign of the elevation of the banner of the Front of Truth and of paving the way for a new world order.

For whenever the Front of Truth has trust in God and perseverance and self-sacrifice, the Front of Falsehood, with all its power and might, whoever or whatever it may be, will not withstand it and retreat and defeat are its certain fate, which thanks be to God, the people of Iran

have learned great lessons from the teachings of pure Muhammadan Islam and the teachings of the Islamic Revolution, and the school of thought of their wise leaders, the great Khomeini and the martyred Khamenei, which they have learned well, and day by day, as God’s promises are fulfilled,

their faith in the righteousness of this path has deepened.

Today, as a result of the superpowers’ self-made disgrace, America’s power and dominion are in decline in both dimensions: its military hard power and its international soft power.

It has suffered an irreversible decline and its collapse is accelerating.

If there are still those who have even a little hope in Those who change their behavior or shift parties and factions within the system of domination, or think they can persuade America to abandon its hostility toward the Iranian people by making concessions,

are gravely mistaken. This false notion is ingratitude for the great victories that the Muslim people of Iran have won through trust in God, steadfastness and struggle.

The Great Satan's wish is the Iranian people's unconditional surrender and even the slightest inclination to surrender to the domineering enemy will squander the immense capital gained through the blessing of the martyrs' blood and the sacrifices of every member of the nation and will

embolden the arrogant enemy to make even greater demands and to wage further wars and commit further acts of aggression.

The only way to achieve absolute deterrence has been to continue Iran's strategy, growing ever stronger on the path of comprehensive progress Social unity, togetherness, and cohesion are the key to success on this path and must guide every word and deed of the nation and its officials, individually and collectively.

In this regard, just as the nation's support for its officials is essential, it is also important that officials continually increase their attention to extra, selfless service and show warmth toward the people, securing their livelihoods and their comfort, material and spiritual growth, and

the preservation of their dignity and independence.

The vanguard in building a bright and glorious future for our beloved Iran is our young people, university students, and schoolchildren, who must continually seek to seize and demolish the dark den of despair, hopelessness, and impossibility, and conquer the bright home of hope and “We Can.”

This mission requires exceptional training and equipping oneself with every kind of weapon: knowledge, piety, skill, and ethics, as well as extraordinary will and effort, and a shared commitment to achieving lofty goals.

It is hoped that, by God's grace and the prayers of our master, may God hasten his noble reappearance, the Iranian nation will experience comprehensive victory, prosperity, and progress as soon as possible, and bring about an even greater and swifter decline The Great Satan's dominance may be established.

They see it as far off, but we see it as near.

Seyyed Mojtaba Hosseini Khamenei The thirteenth of Aban, one thousand four hundred and five.