A senior advisor to Leader of theIslamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has highlighted Iran's guiding role in the ongoing Islamic movements in the region.“We are now witnessing a new wave of Islamic awakening which as friends and foes have confessed is modeled after Iran,” IRNA quoted Ali Akbar Velayati as saying on Thursday.
Velayati described the uprisings in Arab nations in North Africa and the Middle East against their autocratic rulers as a new chapter in history. “We have not seen a development of such depth and magnitude in contemporary history,” he said.
“This awakening started with the surge of old colonialism and coincided with the popular revolution in France and the industrial revolution [in the West], which bore no fruit for Muslim nations, but occupation and death,” he noted.
Ayatollah Khamenei's top advisor described the people's faith in Islam as a distinctive feature of the wave of Islamic awakening and a factor that preserves national and religious identity.
“These awakenings are the inherent result of Islam, because Islam is a dynamic religion and wherever obstacles are cleared from its path it creates uprisings like that of early Islam,” he pointed out.
Velayati, however, warned that colonial powers in the West have been plotting new schemes to counter such Islamic revolutions through mass media and the Internet and called for due cultural work to fend off the enemy's propaganda.
Ayatollah Khamenei's top advisor described the people's faith in Islam as a distinctive feature of the wave of Islamic awakening and a factor that preserves national and religious identity.
“These awakenings are the inherent result of Islam, because Islam is a dynamic religion and wherever obstacles are cleared from its path it creates uprisings like that of early Islam,” he pointed out.
Velayati, however, warned that colonial powers in the West have been plotting new schemes to counter such Islamic revolutions through mass media and the Internet and called for due cultural work to fend off the enemy's propaganda.
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