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IRANS MARCH TO GREATNESS WITH

REVOLUTION AT 35

by Harun Elbinawi

Iran is the 18th-largest country in the

world in terms of area at 1,648,195 km;

Iran has a population of around 75million. It is a country of particular

geopolitical significance owing to its

location in three spheres of Asia (West,

Central, and South). Iran is bordered onthe north by Armenia, Azerbaijan and

Turkmenistan. As Iran is a littoral state of

the Caspian Sea, which is an inland sea,

Kazakhstan and Russia are also Iran's

direct neighbors to the north. Iran is

bordered on the east by Afghanistan and

Pakistan, on the south by the Persian

Gulf and the Gulf of Oman, on the west

by Iraq and on the northwest by Turkey.

Tehran is the capital, the country's


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largest city and the political, cultural,

commercial and industrial center of the

nation.

The seed of the 1979 glorious Islamic

Revolution was planted in 1963 when

Ayatollah Ruhullah Khomeini was

arrested after declaring the Shah a

"wretched miserable man" who had

"embarked on the path toward

destruction of Islam in Iran. Three daysof major riots throughout Iran followed

in the country where tens of thousands

of people were either killed or maimed

from police fire. Ayatollah Khomeini wasreleased after eight months of house

arrest and continued his agitation,

condemning Iran's close cooperation

with Israel and its capitulations by

extension of diplomatic immunity to

American military and civilian personnel


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in Iran. In November 1964 Ayatollah

Khomeini was re-arrested and sent into

exile first to Turkey then Iraq and finally

France where he remained in exile for a

total of 15 years, until the revolution.

Imam Ruhullah Khomeini returned to

Iran on February 1, 1979 and the

Revolution gained victory on the

February 11, 1979.This period, from

February 1 to 11, is celebrated everyyear in Iran as the "Ten Days At Dawn.

February 11 is "Islamic Revolution's

Victory Day", a national holiday with

widespread processions in every city ofIran to celebrate that glorious victory.

The revolution was unusual for the

surprise it created throughout the world

and it produced profound change at

great speed, was massively popular, and

replaced a westoxicated monarchy with


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a theocracy based on Guardianship of

the Islamic Jurists (or WIlayat-e Faqih).

Its outcomean Islamic Republic "under

the guidance of an extraordinary

religious scholar from Qom"was, as

one scholar put it, "clearly an occurrence

that had to be explained".

The Islamic revolution proved contrary

to the goal of the secular propaganda-

the possibility of the coexistence ofknowledge and religion and also of the

great cooperation which could happen

between both. After the victory of the

Islamic Revolution, Iran did not forsakescientific knowledge even for an inch but

worked on all fronts, making great

achievements in the military, industrial

and the medical as well as nuclear

researches and proving that treading the

path of scientific knowledge does not


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necessarily mean joining the so called

western culture and the western cult of

immoral decadence and degeneration.

Bringing together religious commitment

and modern science Iranians were able -

with Gods help to defeat their enemies

on all fronts.

From inception the Islamic Revolution

was not welcome by the two contending

power blocks that existed in the worldthen; the East and the West. At first a

bloody war was imposed on it by

Saddam Iraq to destroy the Revolution

after the failures of all internal intriguesof assassinating its Revolutionary leaders

and a military coup. Iraq was supported

by the two power blocks united by their

determination to destroy the young tree

of the first modern Islamic political

expression; adequate funds were


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provided by the despotic Arab rulers to

cover Saddams on-slaughter. Saddam-

Iraq failed due to the resilience and

resistance of the Revolutionary nation of

Iran but that feat was achieved at a

great human loss. The blood that was

shaded and the sacrifice made at the

Revolution and of the war became the

water that irrigated the young tree of

that Islamic entity.

With its vast natural resources especially

in Crude Oil and Natural Gas by having

the second largest proven natural gas

reserves in the world and the Thirdlargest proven petroleum reserves

couple with a competent and able

leadership, Irans march to greatness

was not unexpected. The Western

hegemonic powers were still not

comfortable with the Islamic Republic


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and using the pretext of developing

Nuclear Weapons they imposed various

debilitating sanctions on the Islamic

State including a ban on selling its Crude

Oil. With four rounds of UN sanctions

and various unilateral sanctions by

Western nations, Iran holds the record

of the most sanctioned nation in modern

contemporary history. They did all these

despite the fact that Irans nuclear

program is the most transparent in thewhole world. The United States of

America is at the fore front of this

campaign of sanction Imposition, a

nation that hold the singular record ofusing Nuclear Weapons to murder

hundreds of thousands of defenseless

civilian population. To this day that

nation had not apologies or show

remorse to that most heinous crime in

human history.


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Despite all the sanctions and obstacles

placed on its path by the arrogant West

including murdering innocent Scientist

by the Western intelligence agencies and

Israel, Iran continue to make

phenomenal strides in all fields of

human endeavors attracting admiration

from all freemen and women the world

over. The most recent achievements is

sending live Monkey to space, theMonkey returned hale and healthy

which is the prelude of sending humans

to space. Iran is doing these without

losing its Islamic identity, an identityoften maligned by the West as backward

and archaic. In the past they claimed

that Hijab is a symbol of oppression and

backwardness but today in Iran we saw

women clad in Hijab contributing

positively to the development of their


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country on all fields. They also claimed

that Islamic laws are outdated and are

incompatible to the modern needs of

mankind but today we saw that crude

hypothesis been defeated in Iran. With

the physical and moral manifestation of

the Islamic identity of Iran, the arrogant

West lost the soul of Muslims forever.

Today Iran had shown the world that a

nation can oppose the arroganthegemonic designs of the West and still

survive; that the Islamic political system

is viable for all ages and had all the

answers to the modern needs of man.The West had often pride itself as the

peak of human progress but with the

embarrassing economic down turn

facing the West today and other societal

disfigurement such as the Sandy school

massacre in the United States, this


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hypothesis remained an hypothesis

because that was what it was from the

beginning.

With the emergence of Iran and other

great nations of Latin America, the world

will not remain the Chessboard of the

arrogant West where its treat other

nations as mere pawns to be used and

when they outlived their usefulness to

be discarded. These emerging greatnations envisage a world that is

dominated by values that made man the

best creation of the creator, values such

as equality, Justice, freedom, humanrights and the rule of law. These are

words one often hears from the mouth

of the arrogant West and their Parrots

but practically meant nothing to them as

they had arrogated to themselves the

position of been the only custodians of


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mankind. The custody they had always

violated and trampled upon to suit their

selfish interest at the detriment of

majority of humanity.

It is our hope that the nations of Africa

and Asia will free themselves from the

shackles of global imperialism and

international Zionism and join this axis of

freedom and true independence for a

more balanced and just world. A worlddevoid of imperialism, neo-colonialism

and racist Zionism, a world where

people will not be classified according to

First-,Second- and Third-world, aclassification that not only describe their

economic condition but also the value

and worth-ness of their lives. We join

the rest of the free world in celebrating

this glorious Revolution in its march to

greatness.

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