He wrote an article published by the Al-Mayadeen website, excerpts of which are as follows:
The United States of America began the war against Iran from the initial moments of the victory of the revolution and the establishment of the Islamic Republic under the leadership of Imam Khomeini (RA) in 1979. At that time, the young revolution and the fledgling Islamic Republic did not have a plan to produce nuclear energy and build long-range missiles, nor did it have a specific plan to support the resistance against the Zionist regime.
What the United States and the Zionist regime wanted was to destroy this country and end its existence. This has been their specific and repeated goals for the war against Iran. However, the Islamic Revolution of Iran has posed and continues to pose a greater threat than these plans against the West’s colonial project and the nations of the region in the Middle East.
What is more dangerous for the Western colonial project than Iran’s nuclear, missile, and resistance programs is the revolutionary philosophy that was founded by the founder of the Islamic Republic, late Imam Khomeini (RA). This revolutionary philosophy shaped the identity of the Islamic Republic and gave legitimacy to the Islamic Republic of Iran; a legitimacy without which the revolutionary republican system would lose its existential justification in the eyes of the people and would collapse from within before collapsing from without.
The legitimacy of the Revolution and the Islamic Republic in Iran is divided into religious, historical, revolutionary, popular, and human legitimacy. Its religious legitimacy is based on the theory of Velayat al-Faqih and the acceptance of Islam as the belief and religion of the Iranian people; historical legitimacy also has its roots in the revolution of Imam Hussein (AS) and all the revolutions of the oppressed against the oppressors; Revolutionary legitimacy was also achieved through the success in overthrowing the corrupt and authoritarian ruling imperial regime and establishing the Islamic Republic as an alternative system with radical changes.
The popular legitimacy of this revolution was also achieved by accepting the demands and goals of the people in achieving the principles of social justice, economic movement, political independence, and intellectual freedom, and human legitimacy was embodied in standing alongside the oppressed of the world against arrogant and tyrants such as the United States and the Zionist regime.
The principles of this revolutionary philosophy that gave legitimacy to the revolution and the Islamic Republic led this country to a direction where it would intellectually and politically place itself outside the sphere of obedience to the United States and confinement within the fence of the Western colonial project, and thus present its own independent civilizational model of life within the circle of revolutionary Islam and outside the system of Western civilization.
These are the principles that led Iran towards a difficult and costly path that went against the flow of normalizing relations with the Zionist regime, especially the new version of normalizing relations in which the United States wants the Zionist regime to rule over Arab and Islamic countries. This path goes beyond rejecting the normalization project and presents the project of liberating Palestine without the presence of the usurping Zionist regime.
The late leader of the Islamic Revolution, Imam Khomeini (RA), used the strategic alliance and complete obedience of the Iranian imperial system and the Zionist regime and the United States as an entry point to eliminate the legitimacy of the ruling imperial system led by Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, and this was one of the main reasons for the revolution against the Pahlavi regime and its overthrow.
The Islamic Revolution and then the Islamic Republic gained the main part of their legitimacy from their position against the imperial system. Standing with Palestine as a nation, an ideal, and a revolution was a major part of the legitimacy of the revolution before its victory and of the Islamic Republic after its establishment.
The presence of Palestine in the thought of the revolution and the Islamic Republic of Iran was part of the revolutionary philosophy and its legitimacy, which is derived from the support of the oppressed against the arrogant and is documented in the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran. The sacred and prominent Islamic position of Palestine stems from al-Quds and the Al-Aqsa Mosque; therefore, Imam Khomeini (RA) made the Palestinian issue the primary aspiration of Muslims and turned the presence of Palestine in revolutionary Iran into a practical reality and a permanent and consistent political approach of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Thus, Palestine entered the core of the legitimacy of the revolution and the Islamic Republic of Iran.
The entry of Palestine into the core of the Islamic Revolution of Iran is based on the revolutionary philosophy and identity of the Islamic Republic, which considers the Zionist regime as a threat to Iran’s national security and the Islamic Republic’s system, on the basis that this regime is at the forefront of the West’s colonial project and a danger to Palestine and neighboring Arab countries, and even the entire Islamic Ummah.
Imam Khomeini (RA) considered the liberation of Palestine as the duty of all Muslims and said: “It is obligatory upon all of us to rise up and destroy the Israeli regime so that the heroic people of Palestine can take its place... We say that Israel must disappear from the face of the earth and that al-Quds belongs to the Muslims and is their first Qiblah.”
Therefore, it is clear that the war against Iran, in its political, media, economic and military forms, has a real goal that goes beyond the three declared goals of the US, the Zionist regime and the West. That goal is the revolutionary philosophy that governs the Islamic Republic, without which the revolution loses its soul and the Islamic Republic loses its legitimacy; and this is what the US and the Zionist regime want.
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