When the Soviet Union intervened in 1978 to rescue and support its puppet regime in Afghanistan through the Soviet army, which later entered the arms race with the United States, entering with its full weight, the Ummah rushed from the east and the west to confront that formidable army.

Religious extremists are using schools, “to actively pervert the purpose of education… Under the pretext of religious belief, they use education institutions, legal and illegal, to narrow young people's horizons, to isolate and segregate, and in the worst cases to indoctrinate impressionable minds with extremist ideology… Freedom of belief in the private sphere is paramount, but in our schools it is our responsibility to tackle those who actively undermine fundamental…

Tafseer Al-Baqarah (2: 174-176) From the Book, Introduction to the Tafseer of the Quran, by the Ameer of Hizb ut Tahrir, the eminent jurist and statesman, Ata Bin Khalil Abu Al-Rashtah:

In his speech earlier this month on Iranian television, Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei launched a sweeping verbal attack on America, where he described it as "the first enemy of our nation." He also said that Iran "will not bow to Washington's pressure on the nuclear agreement." Added, “It shows the depth of American hostility to our entire Iranian nation.”