On the event of the fortieth anniversary of the first Friday Prayers organized after the Islamic Revolution in August 1979, Friday prayers’ leaders from across the country met with the Leader of the Islamic Revolution at the Imam Khomeini Hussainiyeh.

President described the United Kingdom’s seizure of Iranian tanker a childish, cheap and wrong move, and said, “The British are the initiator of insecurity in seas and we hope that they do not repeat this, because it will spread insecurity throughout the world, and to everybody’s detriment”.