Iran Shows the Way Towards Self-Reliance

By: Kayhan Int’l

The sparsely populated Persian-speaking Central Asian republic of Tajikistan has concluded 17 agreements in various fields during the recent visit to Iran of its president, who was much impressed by the astounding progress of the Islamic Republic in all fields despite the illegal sanctions, or more properly the economic terrorism of the US against the Iranian people.

The Leader of the Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, who granted audience to President Imom-Ali Rahman, noted that these illegal measures of the US have spurred Iranian people to great heights and made them achieve self-reliance in all fields, including modern science and technology.

He rightly remarked that though the big industrial powers use sanctions as a weapon against other countries, but “what renders this weapon useless is [paying] attention to internal forces and capacities [of a country].”

The Tajik visitor and his high-ranking delegation met host President Hojjat al-Islam Seyyed Ibrahim Raisi, and other senior officials of Iran, to discuss cooperation in a wide variety of fields, including the promotion of the Persian language, which they also share with neighbouring Afghanistan, whose security situation figured during the talks as well.

Recently, Iran has launched a production line of drones in Dushanbe, the capital of Tajikistan, as part of its friendly and fraternal policy of sharing the fruits of science and technology with Muslim neighbours, in order to help them stand on their feet, free of the dependence upon exploitative powers and their pressures.

As a matter of fact, in view of the common culture, religion, language, and history that Iran, Tajikistan, and Afghanistan share with the rest of the Central Asian countries, it is vital for all these Muslim states to coordinate with each other in the fields of industry and economy as well for the sake promoting peace and stability in the region.

This requires not just the solving of its internal problems by Tajikistan but also opening of dialogue with the new rulers in Kabul whose urgent need is to establish a broad-based national government involving the various ethnic, political, and religious groups of Afghanistan. 

The threat of terrorism, especially by the US protégés, the Daesh, is not only a problem for unity in Afghanistan but also a headache for Tajikistan which fears the infiltration of its borders by these macabrely murderous American agents.

The US is the greatest enemy of not just the Islamic Republic and the Iranian people, but also of all Muslim people, and this includes the masses in Afghanistan, Tajikistan and the rest of Central Asia, whose solidarity and emergence as a strong industrial bloc within framework of the 10-nation Economic Cooperation Organisation (ECO) – whose other members are Pakistan, Turkey and the Caucasus Republic of Azerbaijan – is greatly feared by Washington. 

Nevertheless, as Iran has set the example through its powerful stand and progress over the past four decades, the need of the hour is for Muslim countries (including Arabs, Africans, and southeast Asians) to get together to form a united front in order to defeat the devilish designs of the US and the illegal Zionist entity.