2003/08/22
Leader meets intelligence staff
Tehran, Aug 22 - Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei here Thursday stressed that vigilance against enemy plots is among "important issues which all officials and responsible (state) apparatus, especially Information Ministry, must maintain".
"As long as there is vigilance, none of the plots hatched by the enemies of the establishment and their bragging will prove effective," he told a group of senior officials of the Information Ministry.
The Supreme Leader lauded the "sincere and very valuable services of Information Ministry", saying "these efforts, which are made under hard and complicated conditions and many people and officials are unaware of them, are among the acts which are blesse d by God".
Information Minister Ali Younesi presented a report on the ministry's operations before the Supreme Leader's speech and said: "Information Ministry, thanks to its recognition of the country's situation as well as the enemies' plots, is giving the glad ti dings that the Islamic Iran is stronger than any other time and prepared for a bright future."
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