"Sacrifice made Sacred Defense memories nice"
18 April 2012
The Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad stated this morning (Monday, April 09, 2012) that sacrifice is the key to human perfection and permanence of divine values.
IBNA: Ahmadinejad made his comments in a ceremony held this morning to honor memory of army's chief commander Ali Sayyad Shirazi and 110 prominent Sacred Defense commanders.
The ceremony was held in the presence of the Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Major General Seyed Hassan Firuzabadi, chief of staff of the Iranian Armed Forces along with a number of top government and army officials of all Iranian armed forces. Two books were unveiled in the ceremony that were titled as the King of Hearts and the Hunter of Hearts. The two books tell the life stories of Sayyad Shirazi and 110 other Sacred Defense commanders of the army.
In his keynote speech, Ahmadinejad marked martyrs as the stars of humanity in the path of perfection. "As you know, the truth about creation is that God created the world for humans and he created humans for himself," he stated.
He went on to say that humans should be the epitome of knowledge, wisdom, kindness and creativity. "All divine traditions are made to be in line with human perfection," he added.
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