Iran's leader to elites: "You are the key to a stronger Iran" Ayatollah Seyed Mujtaba Hosseini Khamenei has a message for Iran's brightest minds - and it is a call to action. In a message to the academic and sports medal-winning nations, the leader declared scientific breakthroughs the key to a "stronger Iran," and vowed that the blood of Iran's tortured scientists had ignited a storm of progress the West could not stop. Under the banner "Knowledge is Power," he urged elites to turn their talents to real national challenges—from artificial intelligence to food security—and warned that the battlefield of the future is being won in the lab, not just on the ground.

Iran's leader to elites: "You are the key to a stronger Iran" Ayatollah Seyed Mujtaba Hosseini Khamenei has a message for Iran's brightest minds - and it is a call to action. In a message to the academic and sports medal-winning nations, the leader declared scientific breakthroughs the key to a "stronger Iran," and vowed that the blood of Iran's tortured scientists had ignited a storm of progress the West could not stop. Under the banner "Knowledge is Power," he urged elites to turn their talents to real national challenges—from artificial intelligence to food security—and warned that the battlefield of the future is being won in the lab, not just on the ground.