Press Release

You are the ones who starved the Muslims, Masoud Pezeshkian!

Iran has announced the bankruptcy of its largest private bank, Bank Ayandeh, which has 270 branches in Iran, after its debts increased to more than five billion dollars. What is surprising is the criticism of Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian of the administrative failure, saying: "We have oil and gas, but we are hungry!"

Is it conceivable that this statement would be issued by the president of a country that possesses so much wealth, from oil, gas, chemicals, minerals, and agriculture, and that, with its geography, population, and wealth, can be one of the major countries in the world, and its people can be among the richest people in the world? If the president, who has the power to command and prohibit, says this, then what do the common people say?!

The ruling regime in Iran - like the rest of the regimes in the Muslim countries - is the one who starved the nation, and it is the one who enabled the major countries to control its capabilities and wealth, it is the one who removed the Islamic system from governance, and accepted ruling with systems of disbelief, and it is the one who approved the usurious system in Iran.

The major problem in Iran and all Muslim countries is not administrative failure, but rather it is in the applied ruling system. The contemptible rulers impose on Muslims the capitalist system with all its evils, not the least of which is the usurious system, which is a declaration of war against God and His Messenger, which destroys wealth and causes the wrath of God Almighty.

The one responsible for that administrative failure that the Iranian president is talking about is the president himself. Why is the Iranian people starving - O Masoud Pezeshkian - when you have oil, gas, and other wealth and minerals? Isn't it a result of your foolish policies? Isn't it because you are far from ruling with Islam?

The same is said of the rest of the Muslim countries, in which foolish rulers squander the nation's huge wealth, enable the colonizing infidels to control it, and deprive the nation of that wealth, then one of them comes to justify the cause of hunger by saying that it is an administrative failure!

O Muslims: The foolishness of these rulers who are in charge of your affairs, and who are not qualified to take charge of them, has become apparent to everyone with sight and insight. It is time for you to restrain them, for this is the rule of the fool; preventing him from disposing of money and restricting him. Pledge allegiance to one caliph who rules you by the law of God Almighty, and abolishes the usury system in your countries so that your Lord Almighty and His Messenger ﷺ will be pleased with you, and restores your plundered wealth, and restores your dignity and honor. Here is Hizb ut-Tahrir, the pioneer whose people do not lie, calling you to work with it to establish the second Khilafah Rashidah according to the method of Prophethood.

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