Global oppressors on the verge of collapse: Iran's president

TEHRAN, July 24 (MNA) -- The global oppressors are on the verge of collapse and the current awakening of all nations will bring an end to injustice and tyranny in the world, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Thursday.

Ahmadinejad made the remarks in a meeting with the son of the late Grand Ayatollah Seyyed Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, ISNA reported.

Ayatollah Fadlallah passed away at a Beirut hospital earlier this month.

Fadlallah, who was born in 1935, had advocated armed resistance by Hezbollah to Israel’s 18-year occupation of southern Lebanon.

The resistance movements will follow the path of the late grand ayatollah, and Quds (Jerusalem) will definitely be liberated through the efforts of faithful mujaheddin, Ahmadinejad told Seyyed Ali Fadlallah.

Ahmadinejad offered his condolences over the death of Fadlallah once again, saying that the grand ayatollah attached great significance to major regional issues.

Seyyed Ali Fadlallah thanked Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei and President Ahmadinejad for their condolence messages and said his father always called for Muslim unity and the annihilation of the Zionist regime.

Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki also held a meeting with Ali Fadlallah, during which he said that Ayatollah Fadlallah’s words were mightier than a sword for the enemies of Islam.

Commenting on Fadlallah’s important role in exposing the enemies’ plots, Mottaki stated that he always supported Iran and called for unity among Muslims during his life.

In the meeting, Fadlallah’s son called the Islamic Republic of Iran the “strength” of Islam.