🪖Knowledge joined with piety, an iron shield and a sharp sword against the criminal US and Zionist regime

✏️In an age when the savagery of the system of domination — particularly the criminal US government and the illegitimate Zionist regime — is rampant, the power that springs from knowledge, which is joined with piety and ethics, is like an iron shield and a sharp sword that cuts short the aggressors' hands from harming humanity. You now sit in classrooms where the generations who sat on those dear benches shortly before you are now on the various fronts defending the homeland and honor of Islamic Iran, creating dignity and authority. They will be models and guiding lights for you, just as before them, there were those in these same classrooms who are now counted to be among the exemplars of sacrifice, emblems of the nation's grandeur, and legends of greatness and nobility.

✍From Imam Sayyid Mojtaba Khamenei's message on the beginning of the new academic year, Sept. 22, 2026

📩To read the full text of his message

💻 en.rahbar.ir | 📱 @MKhamenei_en