Start of the 40th Ten-Day Dawn

 

By: S. Nawabzadeh

Forty years ago on February 1, 1979, when that Sage of the Age landed at Tehran’s Mehrabad Airport after 14 years of exile to an unprecedented welcome in history, anywhere in the world, by millions of Iranians with beaming faces massed along a 25-km route all the way to Behesht-e Zahra Cemetery, perhaps none among the 150 international journalists accompanying him from Paris on the chartered Air France flight thought that history was in the making.

The self-styled experts, whether the politicians or the media analysts, had no clue of the things to come and surmised that with the British-installed and US-backed monarchy still in place, how could a septuagenarian Islamic scholar overhaul the western-oriented secular system?

They speculated: Could it be a holy war? Would his idea of the Islamic Republic stand the test of time? Should the capitalist and communist powers in their fierce rivalry for control of the world, allow a completely different system of government based on religious values to flourish?

They didn’t give any chance of survival to the charismatic Gnostic, although he was in the process of overthrowing one of the most oppressive regimes in the world.

To the surprise of the sceptics, the horror of the hypocrites, and astonishment of all adversaries, the Father of the Islamic Revolution changed forever not just the destiny of his homeland Iran but also of the whole world, making the calculations of Global Arrogance go awry and ushering in a new era with his emphasis on "Neither East nor the West, Islam is the Best”.

This was Imam Khomeini (RA), whose vision definitely pierced the future, a fact that manifested itself in the firm faith in him of the enthusiastic Iranian masses, who at times virtually lifted the car in which he was seated on his way to the sprawling graveyard that the Israeli trained Savak had filled in the delusion of prolonging the illegal rule of the tyrannical Shah. 

He was calm and unperturbed amidst the vociferous chants of God’s Majesty (Allah-o Akbar) by the multimillion strong crowds as volunteers sprayed rose water on the perspiring demonstrators, and addressing the nation with firm conviction said: "The Shah has destroyed everything, our culture, our university, the economy, agriculture. We will dismantle and restructure the system he has put in place.”

True to his words, in the ten years he was at the helm of affairs, Imam Khomeini (AS), who ten days after arrival from exile led the revolution to victory and then successfully held the national referendum for establishing with overwhelming public support the Islamic Republic, so strongly molded a dynamic system of government that today forty years later, Iran is undoubtedly the paramount power in the region, inspiring the people and governments in the neighbourhood despite the most devilish plots of the self-defeatist Great Satan.

As we celebrate yet another anniversary of the Ten-Day Dawn, we recall with jubilation the prophetic words of that Man of God who had said: "The US cannot do a damn thing”.

This means the latest illegal sanctions being imposed upon Iran by Donald Trump the Dotard, will boomerang on Washington, as Islamic Iran continues its march towards the pinnacle of progress in almost all fields, including economy, industry, nano technology, peaceful nuclear energy, missile defence system, aerospace, medicine, and above all unflinching support for the popular movements in the region and beyond striving to get rid of the last vestiges of colonialism.