(Presstv) -- “During the escapades of the past several days, Iran’s enemies, using the various tools at their disposal, including money, weapons, politics, and security apparatus, have allied [with one another] to create problems for the Islamic establishment,” Ayatollah Khamenei said on Tuesday.

Ayatollah Khamenei, however, described “the spirit of courage, sacrifice and faith” in the Iranian nation as an obstacle in the way of “the enemy and its enmity.”

Ayatollah Khamenei was speaking in a weekly meeting with several families of Iranian martyrs.

Ayatollah Khamenei referred to the woeful situation besetting some West Asian and North African countries, which have been the target of foreign invasion.

Ayatollah Khamenei highlighted the sacrifices of Iran’s martyrs during Iraq’s 1980-88 imposed war on the country.

Had the enemy found its way into Iran during the eight-year war, “they would have mercy on nothing and a situation considerably worse than that of Libya and Syria would have been created for Iran.”