Leader of Islamic revolution addresses nurses in Tehran.
Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, the Leader of the Islamic Revolution, has praised Iranian nurses for their sacrifices in the country’s fight against the coronavirus pandemic despite the most severe sanctions.
Iran has been unable to obtain the essential medicine and equipment to combat the virus due to US sanctions, leaving the government to rely on its own resources to combat the problem.
The arrogant countries’ glee at the Iranian people’s suffering, according to Ayatollah Khamenei, has reflected itself in actions such as aiding former Iraqi tyrant Saddam Hussein gas Iranian troops and border towns and placing a “medical embargo on the Iranian population.”
“Given these facts, when nurses, with effort and self-sacrifice, put a smile on the lips of patients and their loved ones, they are in fact struggling against the malicious world of arrogance. This is the double value of the nursing community in the Islamic Iran,” the Leader said.
The coronavirus pandemic, on the other hand, “showed that unless the nursing community is reinforced, we will be severely harmed,” according to Ayatollah Khamenei.
Food, medicine, and other humanitarian goods are excluded from US sanctions imposed on Iran in 2018, following President Donald Trump’s withdrawal from a 2015 international nuclear deal.
Foreign banks have been inhibited from conducting financial transactions with Iran as a result of the US sanctions, which target all sectors including oil and financial operations.
This, according to Tehran, has frequently hampered efforts to import critical medicines and other humanitarian aid.
On the occasion of the birthday anniversary of Sayyida Zainab (SA), the granddaughter of Prophet Muhammad (Peace upon Him), and National Nurses Day, the Leader made the remarks in a meeting with a group of Iranian nurses and families of health workers killed in the line of duty in the fight against COVID-19.
Nursing, according to Ayatollah Khamenei, is bitter and cruel since it involves watching patients’ suffering and caring for them around the clock.
“In some junctures, such as the period of the Sacred Defense or the coronavirus, these difficulties have multiplied,” he said, referring to Saddam’s 1980-1988 war on Iran.
The sacrifices of Iranian nurses, according to Ayatollah Khamenei, deserve to be memorialised via art.
“We have a dearth of artistic production when it comes to conveying the hardships of nursing practise.”
These have artistic themes, or dramatic themes in the language of art.
They can be used to create visually appealing art programmes. He stated that “artists should come to the arena.”
“You should recount the truths of your society, your country and your revolution. If you do not recount them, the enemy will do that. If you do not chronicle the revolution, the enemy will do it. If you do not narrate the incident of the Sacred Defense, the enemy will do it in whatever way it likes, making its own justification to tell lies and change the place of the oppressor and the oppressed.”
Women, the Leader said, may be “a tremendous ocean of patience” as well as the “pinnacle of knowledge and prudence” at the same time.
He claimed that Sayyida Zainab was able to demonstrate to the world the immense spiritual and intellectual capacity of women.
“Sayyida Zainab, peace be upon her, showed two points: First, a woman can be a huge ocean of patience and second, a woman can be the pinnacle of wisdom and prudence.”
