Iran's leader responds to the students' letters, and calls on them to arm themselves with knowledge and faith in response to collective letters sent by students across the country in recent months, the supreme leader of the revolution, Ayatollah Seyed Mujtaba Khamenei, said that their determination, desire and sense of responsibility for building the future constitute the connecting thread of the "alliance" between the leadership and the youth. In the message, he thanked the students for their letters of affection, and described their steadfast alliance as a precious trust rooted in the pure Muhammadan school of Islam and the legacy of Khomeini the Great and Khomeini the Martyr. He urged them to equip themselves with the weapons of knowledge, faith, self-purification, sharing with God and a deep familiarity with the teachings of the Koran and Ahl al-Bayt, and to work with redoubled effort and initiative to strengthen dear Iran, so that the path to the heights of progress will be.