The Office of the Supreme Leader

Experts Assembly, confidence point for Islamic System

Islamic Revolution Leader, Ayatollah Sayyed Ali Khamenei in a meeting with head and representatives of the Leadership Experts Assembly termed the position of the assembly as very important and described it as a confidence point for people and the Islamic system.

Ayatollah Khamenei stressed on the principals of the Islamic system as the main directions in the moving towards the right path and said, "One of important duties of the Experts Assembly preserving and consolidating the main slogans and directions of the system."

Ayatollah Khamenei termed the scientific and religious position of the Assembly's representatives as the reason for the importance of this body and added, "Duty of the Assembly is choosing and supervising permanently the conditions of the Leader and this is another reason for great position of the assembly. For this, the Leadership Experts Assembly is a body which break deadline in the Islamic system."

Pointing to the legal and formal form of the Islamic system in the frame of the Constitution, Ayatollah Khamenei added," the legal form includes legal and formal parts of the system and the least condition for preserving the Islamic system is maintaining this legal form. This is a necessary condition but not enough."

Ayatollah Khamenei underlined that preserving and strengthening the principals and content of the Islamic system were the sufficint conditions for preserving the Islamic system and said," If these principals were ignored it is possible that some gradual and hidden changes would take place and the Islamic system would be deviated. Sometimes even the elites would not notice the gradual deviation."

Ayatollah Khamenei termed the formal shape of the Islamic system as hardware part of the system and said," The software of the Islamic system which are intellectual directions, main criteria and principal slogans of the Revolution are the most important issue for preservation of the system."
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