Rock Solid After 42 Years

 Iran Begins Fajr Celebrations

TEHRAN (Kayhan Intl.) -- Iran on Sunday started 10-day celebrations marking the anniversary of victory of the Islamic Revolution in 1979.
The first day of the 10-day Fajr (Dawn) celebrations marks the return of Imam Khomeini, the late founder of the Islamic Republic, to Iran from exile.
Earlier on the day, Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei visited Imam Khomeini’s mausoleum in the southern suburbs of the capital Tehran to pay homage to his memory.
Ayatollah Khamenei also attended the martyrs’ tombs and prayed for the souls of the defenders of Islam and Iran, according to the report.
For the past decades, the Iranian governments have opened important civil projects on the 10-day celebrations, and the officials have held international sports competitions and cultural festivals.
The Islamic Revolution in Iran resulted in the overthrow of the U.S.-backed Shah regime on Feb. 11, 1979.
Forty-two years ago, millions of Iranians thronged Tehran’s Mehrabad Airport to catch a glimpse of the return from almost 15 years of exile of the iconoclast at whose impending arrival the British-installed and U.S.-backed Shah had fled the country.
The celebrations culminate on February 10, marking the resounding triumph of the Islamic Revolution which freed Iran from domestic despotism and foreign hegemony. The victory came under the astute leadership of Imam Khomeini who ended 2,500 years of monarchy in Iran.
With the new anniversary, the Islamic Iran puts behind a tough year which was marked by the assassination of two icons - a military commander and a nuclear scientist - and the U.S. escalation of its maximum pressure on Tehran amid a pandemic with the ultimate goal of ousting the Islamic Republic.  
Today, when Donald Trump and his criminal clique that sought to bring Iran to its knees have ended their miserable career in total failure despite their cowardly acts of terrorism, such as the illegal sanctions and the assassination of two of the symbols of the Islamic Republic’s power of defense and scientific development – General Qassem Soleimani and Dr. Mohsen Fakhrizadeh – Iran has every reason to celebrate Ten-Day Dawn of 2021 with more fervor, especially after its medics have mastered the manufacture of the coronavirus vaccine to kill the pandemic.
Throughout its life, the Islamic Republic has been the target of incessant U.S. hostility, but the former Trump administration brought it to a head, with its hawkish national security adviser John Bolton saying in 2017 that "the Ayatollah Khomeini’s 1979 revolution will not last until its 40th birthday.”  
"The Islamic Revolution Turned 42; Seven American Presidents Got Lost,” Kayhan said in its front page headline Sunday.