Imam Khomeini played crucial role in Islamic movement

A Syrian political thinker said that the late founder of the Islamic Revolution Imam Khomeini played a crucial role in worldwide Islamic movement.

Abdullah al-Hassan made the remarks on the threshold of the 20th anniversary of the demise of Imam Khomeini.

He contended that the thoughts of that politico-religious leader were based on Islamic unity.

The ideas prompted the Ummah to withstand US and Israeli plots to divide the Ummah into conflicting groups, he said.

He always supported the oppressed people in the world and encouraged them to confront arrogant powers, the Syrian thinker said.

Imam Khomeini initiated Qods Day to bring the Muslims together on the Palestine issue, he concluded.

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