Supreme Leader's Message on the Martyrdom of Sardar Hussein Hamedani
The following is the full text of the message issued on October 10, 2015 by Ayatollah Khamenei, the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution, on the martyrdom of Sardar Hussein Hamedani (may God bestow paradise on him).
In the Name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
I would like to express my congratulations and condolences on the occasion of the martyrdom of our glorious Sardar- Shahid Hussein Hamedani- to his honorable family, his friends, his comrades and the august Islamic Revolution Guards Corps.
This veteran, sincere and diligent warrior spent his pure and pious youth defending his Islamic homeland and the Islamic republic in the front lines of honor and dignity. He spent the last stage of his blessed life and enlightened countenance defending the sanctuary of the Ahlul Bayt (a.s.) and confronting savage takfiris and anti-Islam. He fulfilled his dream which was to lay down his life - in that same glorious front line - while engaging in jihad in the way of God. May he rejoice in divine blessings and mercy.
The formidable line of those who aspire to achieve this blessing and the path of jihad and martyrdom in Islamic Iran, in the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps and in the entire Armed Forces of the Islamic Republic- is a long and firm line: "Of them some have completed their vow and some still wait, but they have never changed in the least" [The Holy Quran, 33: 23].
God's mercy be upon Shahid Hamedani and upon all the mujahids of the path of truth.
Sayyid Ali Khamenei