Tehran, Nov 29, IRNA -- Hojatoleslam Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani said here on Friday that the architects of the Zionism-Christianity coalition plan to bring about a big rift in Iran and to make deeper the gap between seminaries and universities.

"They want to alienate the Iranian youth from the revolution and they have of course failed in all their conspiracies," said the Expediency Council Chairman Rafsanjani in his second Friday prayers sermon at Tehran University's central campus compound on the last Friday of holy fasting month of Ramadhan, marking the World Qods Day.

Rafsanjani advised the nation, particularly the youth, to be vigilant and not to show simplistic attitudes towards such sensitive matters.

He recommended the youth to ponder on the reason the West has geared up all its facilities, including radio and TV, satellite, film industry and press, to launch wide-scale publicity against the brave Iranian nation.

He warned against any move that would please sinister goals of the arrogance and deviate the youth.

"All (Iranians) should be vigilant and alert; and now I do not want to support or reject any particular party," said the Friday Prayer leader.

He meanwhile hoped he would not, God forbid, witness any "bad and dirty conflicts" in the future that would favor and please "the enemy."

The influential Iranian official advised setting aside all differences in the face of Americans' military build-up in the region.

He lauded the (mobilization) Basij Week and said Basijis would foil the enemies' hostilities as "was indicated in recent incidents."

Rafsanjani's reference was obviously to Basijis' demonstration against recent riots, sparked by a death sentence issued against university Professor, Dr. Hashem Aghajari, by a court in Hamedan on charges of defamatory and sacrilegious claims against the Prophet (PBUH).

He thanked the Iranian nation for their high turn-out in Friday's World Qods Day rallies, the exercise whose observation was called 24 years ago by founder of the Islamic Republic and father of the Islamic Revolution the late Imam Khomeini.

Iran's chief arbitrator denounced indifference of the world public pinion towards crimes committed by the Zionist Regime, saying the west's conscience does not react to the issue despite publication of photos and films on Israelis' crimes.

He was also critical of certain Muslim states for refusing to take proper action against Israeli crimes due to their strong ties with the United States.

"It's a matter of surprise that certain Muslim states assume the US is their savior angel," he said.

Palestine is the most important Islamic concern today, and furthermore, the mother of all issues in the contemporary world, concluded Rafsanjani.

Karroubi calls for unity, warding off dispersion

"Constitution is our charter and we should avoid factionalism," said Karroubi in an address to a group of worshipers here at the late Imam Khomeini's mausoleum on Thursday, which marked the last night of Qadr (Grandeur).

The Holy Quran is believed to have been revealed to Prophet Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him) on one of the three nights known as `Qadr' (the 19th, 21st and 23rd nights of the auspicious month of Ramadan, which fall this year on November 24, 26 and 28).

Karroubi invited the statesmen, elite, press and scholars to unity at the ongoing sensitive juncture.

He also called for high public turnout in the World Qods Day rallies on Friday, November 29, that is the last Friday of the holy month of Ramadan in the world of Islam.

He said Europe, Asia and Africa are today calling for an independent Palestine and a government in the Palestinian land thanks to Iran's Islamic Revolution and the late Imam Khomeini's initiative.

Some 24 years ago, founder of the Islamic Republic and father of the Islamic Revolution the late Imam Khomeini on the last Friday of the holy month of Ramadan issued a message in which he called the day as the World Qods Day.

People from various walks of life, including students, state and military officials, civil servants, shop-keepers and so on, take part in the rally annually to condemn Israel's atrocities and the US support for the Zionist regime.