Iran 40 years after victory of the Islamic Revolution (7)

Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, in a speech at the holy shrine of Imam Reza (AS) in Mashhad in the beginning of the Iranian 1397 year, said, "In the year that passed the Islamic Republic succeeded to hoist the flag of dignity and might of the Iranian nation in the region and had an important share in breaking the back of the Takfiris and establishing security in the region."

The Leader of the Islamic Revolution, emphasizing on the presence of the Islamic Republic of Iran in some of the regional countries according to the demand of their governments and nations, made it clear, "We have neither bullied nor have we interfered in the domestic affairs of countries. They requested and we helped them and we did this help with logical motives and very rational calculations rather than sentiments."

One of the ideals of the Islamic Revolution has been the promotion of the culture of resistance in the face of the global system of dominance.

The Islamic Republic of Iran in its 40th year of life, has continued the path of defending the rights of oppressed nations as it has been expressly mentioned in the Constitution.

The foreign policy of the Islamic Republic is also based on principles such as unflinching support for the downtrodden and Muslims in the world.

The article 16 of principle 3 of the Constitution stresses the designing of foreign policy on the basis of Islamic criteria, brotherly commitment toward all Muslims and unflinching support for the downtrodden across the world.

Principle 154 also makes it clear that the Islamic Republic of Iran, while avoiding any intervention in the internal affairs of other nations, supports righteous struggle of the downtrodden against oppressors in any region of the world. Dr. Seyyed Jalal-uddin Madani explains this principle in his book, "As long as nations are not determined to realize their rights there will be no possibility of change in them and whenever a nation grows up and demands its violated rights it will cause change. The support of the Islamic Republic for such an uprising is not considered as intervention because the solidity and stability of the system depends on the demand of the people and when a nation asks for help it has used its rights rather than foreign help."

Ayatollah Khamenei says, "Wherever we interfere we say it clearly. We interfered in the affairs against Israel and the result was the victory of the 33-day war and the 22-day war. After this, also, wherever any nation or any group which confronts the Zionist regime we will be behind it and help it and have no fear of saying this."

In view of the Islamic Republic of Iran, every nation should enjoy equal rights in the international system and shouldn't be aggressed or bullied by any country.

The Islamic Republic of Iran is opposed to any aggression, invasion and occupation; and wherever it realizes that a nation is in need of support against aggression it will not hesitate to support it and condemn the aggressor and oppressor. The Founder of the Islamic Republic, Imam Khomeini, said, "We must support the downtrodden of the world because Islam supports the whole downtrodden in the world and Iran spends its power to support other Muslims."

These stances mean opposition against domineering policies and behaviors. The Islamic Revolution has been shaped on the basis of the culture of resistance, self-sacrifice, freedom-seeking, self-belief, bond between politics and religion, justice-seeking and struggle against Arrogance. Since its birth, the Islamic Revolution has fought the Global Arrogance (symbolized by the US) and the Zionist regime of Israel and the most illegitimate entity in the world.

The right to live is one of the birthrights of every human being. But, today the regimes which are supported by the United States of America are committing every crime with full impunity. The fabricated Zionist regime of Israel has committed every imaginable crime for the past 70 years but the US has always supported it shamelessly.

Saudi regime has been a partner-in-crime for the US and Israel at least for the past three decades. Saudis started their military assault on Yemen on March 25, 2015, but the there is no movement or cry of the US human rights on the issue.

Rania Khalek, American analyst tweeted on the barbaric attacks of Saudis on Yemeni people, "In Yemen, every hour a citizen loses his life due to cholera and the US-sponsored Saudi bombardment and siege is the cause of widespread outbreak of cholera."

Although these moves and battles have existed in the past eras, too, the occurrence of the Islamic Revolution caused fundamental development in the teachings of the culture of resistance. Without doubt, it can be said that today defence of values and justice-seeking ideal of the Islamic Republic have turned inspired deprived nations to resists against the hegemonic system in the world. The impacts of this can be seen in the awakening of oppressed nations. Oppressed nations now believe that they can confront despotic regimes. The culture of resistance has been shaped up in the form of Islamic uprisings in the Islamic world and the culture of fighting oppression among deprived nations. Universalization of the values of the Islamic Revolution has made the demand for ending the US hegemony and Israeli occupation of Palestine to a global demand.

Protests against domineering systems, especially the Great Satan (the US) and its continuous violation of international treaties and non-commitment vis-à-vis global issues such as the environment preservation, nuclear disarmament, racism and discrimination have been universalized. In view of this, the demand for basic changes in the structure of the global system and monopoly has been focused on the bodies like the United Nations Security Council and monetary funds and institutions in the first place. The Iranian nation's stiff resistance against the bullying of the US and its allies have created the belief among oppressed nations that it is possible to stand against domineering powers. 

July 3 Marks 30th Anniversary of US War Crime by Shooting Iran Air Passenger Plane

To understand why the people and leadership of Iran distrust the US, one only has to recall the US’ deliberate shooting down of an Iranian passenger plane on July 3, 1988 in the Persian Gulf. Iran Air Flight 655 had just taken off from Bandar Abbas International Airport and was heading to Dubai. There were 274 passengers and 16 crew members on board. The passengers included 66 children. Also on board was Mahliqa Qurai, a leading Iranian writer and intellectual. The plane was still flying over Iranian territorial waters and climbing toward its cruising altitude when it was blown up in the sky. In the waters of the Persian Gulf below, a US Navy guided-missile cruiser, the USS Vincennes fired two missiles at the plane destroying it instantly. All 290 members on board were killed. Each year, Iran marks the anniversary of the downing of its civilian aircraft. Today was no exception and reinforced the Iranians’ belief that the US is their implacable enemy. Just as it destroyed a harmless civilian passenger plane, the US would like to destroy the Islamic Republic. The Great Satan, as Imam Khomeini described the US, makes no secret of its hostile intentions toward the Islamic Republic. American officials—Mike Pompeo, John Bolton, Nikki Hailey and others—have openly declared their intention to overthrow the legitimate Islamic system of governance in Iran. In 1988, as soon as it became apparent that the US had shot down a civilian passenger plane over Iranian territorial waters, American officials began a campaign of disinformation and obfuscation. No less a person than US Secretary of Defence (Offense) Casper Weinberger pulled out maps to show the plane was shot down over international waters and that it was threatening the USS Vincennes in the waters below. Weinberger also alleged that the Vincennes’ radar showed a plane descending toward the navy cruiser. The American official was lying. First, he brought out a map that had deliberately omitted an Iranian island in the Persian Gulf that put the plane clearly in Iran’s territorial waters. Second, the plane was ascending (climbing), not descending. It was a passenger plane, not the much smaller F-14 fighter plane as the Americans alleged at the time. Decades later, the Americans still peddle the fiction that the shooting down of the civilian passenger plane was a “mistake”. “The shoot-down of Iran Air flight 655 was an accident, but that is not how it was seen in Tehran,” former CIA analyst and current Brookings scholar Kenneth Pollack wrote in his 2004 history of US-Iran enmity, "The Persian Puzzle." If it was an “accident”, what explanation is there for the US to award the second highest naval medal, Legion of Merit, to Vincennes commander, Will Rogers? Then US President George H. W. Bush said Rogers was awarded the medal for “outstanding service” during operations in the Persian Gulf! Blowing up a civilian airliner and killing 290 passengers on board would hardly constitute “outstanding service” unless one happens to be an American and a war criminal. Blowing up Iran Air Flight 655 killing 290 passengers on board is a war crime. It also encapsulates America’s hostility toward the Islamic Republic. Without acknowledging and making amends for this crime, there is be no possibility that the two can have “normal” relations. US crimes against Iran date back to the CIA-MI6 engineered coup against the democratically elected government of Prime Minister Mohammad Mussadegh in August 1953. That coup ushered in the most horrific period of torture and killings in Iranian history. The Americans also continue to embrace the terrorist group, the Mujahideen-e Khalq organization, better known as munafiqeen in Iran. There is no end to American wickedness and criminality when it comes to dealing with other countries. -Crescent International