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Western countries allow no freedom of expression, which they claim to advocate, with regard to the myth of the massacre of Jews known as the holocaust, and nobody in the West enjoys the freedom of expression to deny it or raise doubts about it. But affronting the sanctities of about 1.5 billion Muslims is permissible in the West.

— Ali Khamenei

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If people get into the habit of using their free time for reading books, our society will greatly advance and the country's culture will progress.

The arrogant powers intend to turn our nation into a third-world country and return it to its pre-revolutionary state.

Today, you are hated throughout the world. If you don't know this, you should. The peoples burn your flag. The Islamic peoples all over the world chant: "Death to America!"

Freedom is the gift of God and the Revolution. Freedom belongs to the people and is their fundamental need.

The purchase of any item which helps strengthen Zionism is not permissible.

Imam Syed Ali Khamenei (2001)

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