🇮🇷: 🕋 | Ayatollah Makarem Shirazi (H): Saudi Arabia should not link war-related issues to Hajj

Ayatollah Makarem Shirazi, during a meeting with the spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, stated: The most important support behind the success of executive and governing institutions is the conscious presence and cooperation of the people.

As long as the people remain present on the scene, the country will remain protected from harm. Officials must understand the concerns and problems of the people and take practical steps to resolve them.

Under the current circumstances, where the country faces pressure from arrogant powers, relations with neighboring states must be preserved and strengthened more than ever, provided that they also respect the principles of good neighborliness.

This year, the Saudi government has imposed greater restrictions on pilgrims. Sufficient negotiations must be conducted with Saudi Arabia so that issues related to war are not connected to the obligation of Hajj.

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🏴‍☠️ | Trump finally acquired enriched uranium, but in Venezuela:

According to The Guardian, Donald Trump has finally succeeded in removing a country’s stockpile of enriched uranium. However, the country was not Iran, but Venezuela.

The U.S. Department of Energy announced on Friday that “thanks to President Trump’s decisive leadership,” 13.5 kilograms of enriched uranium had been removed from an old research reactor in Venezuela.

The department described the joint operation carried out by the United States, Britain, and Venezuela as “a victory for America, Venezuela, and the world.”

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🇧🇭 | 41 Shia scholars have been arrested by the Bahraini regime on charges of siding with Iran during the American-Israeli aggression against Iran. Among those detained are a number of prominent Ayatullah authorities and religious figures.

These arrests come amid an ongoing and unjust crackdown targeting Shiite religious scholars in Bahrain. Heavily armed regime forces, backed by advanced surveillance and tactical equipment, continue carrying out raids on homes and intimidating families. In recent weeks, a number of reciters, religious figures, and community elites were also deported, forcing them to leave Bahrain amid increasing pressure and repression.

#BahrainShia

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✅ | Selective Silence and the Crisis of Moral Consistency Within the Shia World:

Dear Shias,

Fear that your silence may soon turn into hypocrisy, and that selective outrage may gradually make us insensitive to the dire plight of oppressed Shia communities in Saudi Arabia, UAE, Kuwait, Lebanon, Bahrain, Syria, Azerbaijan, Pakistan, and Afghanistan.

We raise this concern after a long period of observation and analysis regarding how certain pressure groups, organizations, media circles, and influencers within the Shia world have become excessively driven by political preferences in deciding which oppressed Shia communities deserve mourning, solidarity, and attention, and which do not. The suffering of believers should never be measured through factional loyalties, ideological convenience, or geopolitical alignment.

Some Shirazi-aligned groups, for example, often remain silent regarding the sacrifices and martyrdoms of the Shias of Iran and Lebanon simply because of their support for the Islamic Revolution of Iran and the Islamic Resistance movements. Likewise, many Indian Shias have at times chosen to highlight the genocide of Shias in Pakistan only when it conveniently aligns with state-sponsored anti-Pakistan narratives. In such cases, the humanitarian concern becomes mixed with political acceptability, and the sincerity of solidarity begins to weaken.

Similarly, the oppression faced by the Shias of Bahrain has not been raised with the seriousness and consistency it deserves, even among many Arab Shia circles. Entire communities continue to suffer imprisonment, discrimination, censorship, and marginalization, while public attention shifts elsewhere according to trends, algorithms, or political calculations.

This condition emerges from a lack of awareness, insufficient engagement with the realities of oppressed communities, and a growing habit of investing our emotions only in what is trending, popular, or politically safe to discuss. We are increasingly becoming reactive rather than principled.

More dangerously, factionalism within the Shia world is being quietly promoted against the followers of Wilayat al-Faqih. Artificial divisions are amplified through endless polemics, personality-based conflicts, and superficial “Usuli vs Akhbari” debates that often have little to do with genuine scholarly discourse and more to do with weakening unity within the community. Certain groups deliberately cultivate suspicion, sectarian fragmentation, and hostility against one another while presenting themselves as defenders of religion.

The enemies of Ahl al-Bayt (A) do not distinguish between our internal factions when targeting us. The bombs that fall upon Lebanon, the prisons of Bahrain, the massacres in Pakistan and Afghanistan, the sanctions upon Iran, and the oppression in Syria and Saudi Arabia affect human beings connected through the love of the same Ahl al-Bayt. Yet we have increasingly normalized selective empathy.

If our tears are only for those approved by our political camps, then our moral compass is in danger. If our voices rise only when it is socially convenient, then silence itself becomes a form of complicity.

The path of Ahl al-Bayt was never built upon trend-based loyalty, factional interests, or ideological branding. It was built upon justice, dignity, sacrifice, truthfulness, and standing beside the oppressed regardless of political consequences.

This is not a call for blind agreement with every movement, state, scholar, or organization. Criticism and intellectual differences will always exist. But the suffering of believers should never become secondary to factional hatred. The blood of martyrs should not be filtered through ideological preferences before receiving our prayers, concern, or solidarity.

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We must rebuild a culture of sincere awareness, principled solidarity, intellectual honesty, and responsibility toward the Ummah. Otherwise, selective silence today may indeed become hypocrisy tomorrow.

It is deeply painful that the massacres, displacement, annihilation, and persecution faced by many Shia communities, especially in Lebanon and Bahrain, continue while our streets, institutions, and public spaces often remain silent and vacant of meaningful concern. Entire populations endure oppression, imprisonment, bombings, media blackouts, and systematic marginalization, yet much of the reaction within our own circles remains selective, politically filtered, or dependent upon trends.

The suffering of believers should never be measured according to factional loyalties, ideological branding, or political convenience.

PS: This concern is directed only toward those specific sections, groups, and individuals within the community who engage in such behaviour and promote such attitudes. It is not intended as a condemnation of the entire Shia community as a whole.

#KuwaitShia
#UAEShia
#LebanonShia
#SaudiShia
#SyriaShia
#BahrainShia
#PakistanShia
#AzerbaijanShia

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