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Tehran, Feb 24, IRNA -- Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei Sunday evening warned of the enemies' "complicated plots" to stoke up tensions among ethnic and religious lines in Iran as he exhorted the country's Shiite and Sunni Muslims to remain vigilant.
"The nation from all walks of life, especially the clergy, must remain fully vigilant and neutralize all the seditious plots," he told a group of clergy in the southeastern city of Zahedan in the Sistan Baluchestan province, which has a large Sunni community in the Shiite-dominated Iran.
"The enemy is very active behind the scene and by using many tricks, including by insulting the beliefs of Shiite and Sunni Muslims, seeks to pit religious castes against one another.
"In the face of these tricks and plots, all the people, especially the clergy ... must totally remain vigilant and insist on unity and amity as well as love among Shiite and Sunni (Muslims)," Ayatollah Khamenei said.
God's assistance to those nations which seek to uphold Islam and justice is an "inviolable promise", he said, adding "as I have told before ... we can reach the world's peak of knowledge in the next 50 years if we try".
"There is no god except God; this slogan has questioned (the existence of) all world idols and global centers of oppression. That is why the centers of haughtiness have not spared even one day in their efforts to torpedo and upset the evolution of the Iranian nation after the victory of the (Islamic) Revolution (in 1979),"
Ayatollah Khamenei said.
The leader arrived in Zahedan Sunday on a provincial visit to meet local people and supervise the state of affairs in the province which borders Afghanistan and Pakistan.
The province suffers from infrastructural backwardness amid widespread drug trade and several years of a crippling drought.
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